Michael Faraday is the biography of the man of science who lived a simple and unadventurous life yet instrumental in contributing to the advancement of natural science for more than five decades of the century he lived in. This biography is written by Walter Copeland Jerrold, a journalist and newspaper editor, whose other biographical work includes about personalities like Thomas Hood, Charles Lamb, Douglas Jerrold, and Earl Kitchener of Khartoum. This book narrates the life of Faraday starting from his childhood as newspaper boy and his transformation to many professions as scientist, teacher, preacher and lecturer.  One dedicated chapter narrates the turning point in his life which made his life to turn from his low profile job of bookbinder to scientist.

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