Michael Hoeye

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Michael Hoeye (born 1947, in Los Angeles, California) is an American children's writer. He is the author of the Hermux Tantamoq Adventures, a series of children's mystery novels about a watchmaker mouse.

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Hoeye has been variously a farmer, fashion photographer, and high-school teacher. He and his wife, Martha, live in a cottage in Oregon, U.S.A., together with nine large oak trees, six even larger fir trees, and a large cast of squirrels, woodpeckers and other birds. [1] He has also taught at Marylhurst University.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. Michael Hoeye, short biography at puffin.co.uk, accessed 2 May 2012