{"id":14263,"date":"2026-07-30T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/30\/i-had-a-really-crippling-break-how-author-michael-thomas-lost-20-years-to-mania-depression-and-more-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:31:07","slug":"i-had-a-really-crippling-break-how-author-michael-thomas-lost-20-years-to-mania-depression-and-more-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/30\/i-had-a-really-crippling-break-how-author-michael-thomas-lost-20-years-to-mania-depression-and-more-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I had a really crippling break\u2019: how author Michael Thomas lost 20 years to mania, depression and more Culture | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006 the novel Man Gone Down made Thomas famous and won him a \u20ac100,000 prize. He expected to produce a follow-up within a year \u2013 but life had other plans<\/p>\n<p>It should be some kind of happy ending when, after years of poverty and graft, an aspiring writer publishes their debut novel and it is greeted with acclaim and awards \u2013 but that\u2019s not how it happened for Michael Thomas. His 2006 novel Man Gone Down seemed to augur the arrival of a powerful new literary voice, the beginning of a brilliant career. He featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2009\/jun\/11\/debut-novelist-impac-dublin-prize\">won the \u20ac100,000 Dublin literary award<\/a> \u2013 one of the most generous prizes in the book world \u2013 and he was promoted to assistant professor at Hunter College, New York, where he taught creative writing. But a follow-up would not arrive until now, 20 years later. Thomas\u2019s new memoir, The Broken King, goes some way to explaining what happened in between. It also confirms his formidable talent.<\/p>\n<p>The Broken King is an extraordinary read \u2013 deeply personal and intimate, but also expansive and free-ranging, taking in everything from TS Eliot (the title comes from Eliot\u2019s poem <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_Gidding_(poem)\">Little Gidding<\/a>) to James Baldwin, Brazilian football and the Rolling Stones. Thomas\u2019s story runs through what he describes as a \u201cperfect storm of conditions\u201d: poverty, parental abandonment, racism, alcoholism, sexual violence, self-sabotage and mental illness. It would be tempting to classify it as some kind of misery memoir, but it is neither bleak nor generic \u2013 Thomas is simply too good a writer for that. Reviews in the US have been glowing: \u201cThomas has rendered beautifully an excruciating existence from which it is impossible to turn away,\u201d raved the author Thomas Chatterton Williams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/26\/books\/review\/michael-thomas-broken-king.html\">in the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2026\/jul\/30\/i-had-a-really-crippling-break-how-author-michael-thomas-lost-20-years-to-mania-depression-and-more\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2026\/jul\/30\/i-had-a-really-crippling-break-how-author-michael-thomas-lost-20-years-to-mania-depression-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/938f2196f9cf03b29f3ec63566120faca4f2bc4a\/2041_161_4679_3743\/master\/4679.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b649b572919bbcd273178761a2a9751a\" title=\"\u2018I had a really crippling break\u2019: how author Michael Thomas lost 20 years to mania, depression and more\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006 the novel Man Gone Down made Thomas famous and won him a \u20ac100,000 prize. He expected to produce a follow-up within a year \u2013 but life had other plans It should be some kind of happy ending when, after years of poverty and graft, an aspiring writer publishes their debut novel and it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018I had a really crippling break\u2019: how author Michael Thomas lost 20 years to mania, depression and more Culture | The Guardian - Cultural Left<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/30\/i-had-a-really-crippling-break-how-author-michael-thomas-lost-20-years-to-mania-depression-and-more-culture-the-guardian\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018I had a really crippling break\u2019: how author Michael Thomas lost 20 years to mania, depression and more Culture | The Guardian - Cultural Left\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In 2006 the novel Man Gone Down made Thomas famous and won him a \u20ac100,000 prize. 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