Michael Smith (born 1946) is a British author and journalist specialising in the history of polar exploration.
[citation needed] Smith began writing about Antarctic and Arctic exploration after a successful career as an award-winning journalist in London.
[1] The biography of Tom Crean was responsible for raising awareness of the role played by Irishmen in the history of Polar exploration.
Michael Smith has also written biographies of Captain Lawrence Oates, Sir James Wordie and Francis Crozier.
He also chronicled the role of lesser known Irish explorers, including Edward Bransfield, Patrick Keohane, Robert Forde and Tim and Mortimer McCarthy.