Born in the USA
Mike Booth was born and raised in Michigan and graduated with a liberal arts degree from Michigan State University in 1965. He worked in public relations at Chrysler-Plymouth Division of Chrysler Corporation in Detroit for a year before being drafted into the U.S. Army.

Within six months of being discharged from the Army in 1968 he was on his way to Europe, determined to make his way there as a freelance journalist. In early 1969 he discovered Spain and has lived and made his career there ever since. Booth sold his first freelance travel article to the New York Times. He adopted Spanish nationality in 1984.

A Spanish Lifetime
In more than 30 years in Spain he has worked in photography, journalism, publishing and publicity, with incursions into telecommunications and marketing. In 1992 he founded Spain's first computer-fax company and in 1996 a telemarketing agency for selling Spanish wines by telephone and Internet. In 1999 he turned his attention to the world of Internet publishing and founded WorldPrintmakers.com (www.worldprintmakers.com), a printmaking-specialty website dedicated to contemporary fine-art printmakers from around the world.

New Projects
He was recently drawn back into the public relations business in support of a good cause: the Legacy of al-Andalus Foundation, for which he founded a small PR company: Gabinete de Prensa.net (www.gabinetedeprensa.net).

Also new, since June 2008, is Print Workshop Central (http://printworkshopcentral.com) a services and resources site for fine-art print studios around the world.

Booth lives with his painter and printmaker wife, Maureen (http://www.maureenbooth.com), in a village in the foothills of Sierra Nevada outside of Granada. They have three grown children and six grandchildren.