Michael Henderson

Michael Henderson (born 15 March 1932) was an English journalist and the author of 14 books. No Enemy To Conquer – Forgiveness in An Unforgiving World (2009) had a foreword by the Dalai Lama. The former BBC war correspondent Martin Bell described the book as "a thoughtful guidebook to the troubled times we live in". Henderson's books on forgiveness are regularly used in academic courses on conflict resolution. He lived in Westward Ho! in North Devon, England, and Taunton, Somerset, from 2018. Henderson was born in Ealing, London. Due to evacuation he attended many schools: Durston House and Ripley Court in Britain, Milton Academy Junior School and Rectory School in the United States, and The Hall School and Mill Hill School after he returned to England. From 1979 to 2000 he and his wife Erica (nee Hallowes) lived in Portland, Oregon where he was president of the World Affairs Council, the English-Speaking Union and Willamette Writers. In the US he was a columnist for The Oregonian and The Christian Science Monitor and Union Jack and contributed op-ed articles to many papers including the Los Angeles Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Milwaukee Journal, The Plain Dealer and the Washington Times.