Michael Feeney Callan Harris. His biography of Robert Redford ("Robert Redford: The Biography"; Knopf, 2011) was chosen by the "Sunday Times" as one of its recommended Best Books of 2011. In 2013, he published his second volume of poetry, "An Argument for Sin". Callan was born to Michael Callan, an engineer, and Margaret (née Feeney) in Drumcondra, Dublin. After living in London, Callan resettled in Dublin with his wife Ree and their two children. He frequently spends time at Châteauneuf de Grasse, where he paints and sculpts. Callan started writing in his teens, publishing poetry in David Marcus' "New Irish Writing". His first
Michael Feeney Callan Wells. Callan's first screenplay was the crime series "The Burke Enigma", a six-hour film production for RTÉ, which starred Ray McAnally and Donal McCann, and went forward as RTÉ's drama entry for the 1979 Prix Italia. According to Callan, this work was "influenced by the film noir I loved as a kid, and by Robert Altman's (filming) style." Subsequently, Callan joined BBC television drama in London, where he story-edited the detective series "Shoestring". Simultaneously, at ITV, he wrote for the action series "The Professionals". In the 1980s, Callan collaborated with Frederick Forsyth on Public Broadcasting Service-aired adaptations of Forsyth's stories