Mick Jackson (born 1960) is a British writer from England, best known for his novel The Underground Man (1997).
The book, based on the life of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and for the 1997 Whitbread Award for best first novel.
[1] Mick Jackson was born in 1960, in Great Harwood, Lancashire, and educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn.
In 1990, he enrolled in a creative writing course at the University of East Anglia, and began working on The Underground Man.
Under the pseudonym Kirkham Jackson, he wrote the screenplay for the 2004 television film Roman Road.