Mick O'Hare

Mick O'Hare (born 1964 in Mirfield, England) is a British journalist, author and editor.

Life Mick O'Hare is a freelance journalist, author and editor, specialising in the history of spaceflight, Cold War and Eastern European politics, general science, polar exploration, motorsport, rugby league and other sports, writing for numerous publications including The New World and The Independent. He is an obituary writer for The Times and The Guardian. He was formerly an editor at New Scientist, the leading British science weekly, where he edited "The Last Word" column, a collection of quirky questions and answers. O'Hare edited the bestselling books "Does Anything Eat Wasps?", which had sales of over half a million (539,532) and "Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?", which topped three-quarters of a million (849,976) copies. O'Hare's books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Prior to joining New Scientist in 1992, he was the production editor for Autosport. He has a geology degree.