Michael Lieber is a British novelist, essayist and short-story writer. Lieber's novels include The War Hero, The Boy and the Goldlock and Helga Dune. Throughout the 2010's, Lieber had a brief career as a London playwright and actor, during this period he also appeared in a handful of films. One of his first appearances was in the 2014 biopic Ramanujan, a period drama set in 1914 about the life of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Lieber played John Edensor Littlewood, starring alongside Kevin Mcgowan, Cloudia Swann, and Richard Walsh. When preparing to play the part, Lieber mat with renowned Hungarian mathematician professor Béla Bollobás who had worked with Littlewood in the 1970's.