Dr. M. M. Basheer was born on 18th September, 1940 in Kaniyapuram village of Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala. He studied BA and MA under the University College, Thiruvananthapuram and then went on to the University of Kerala for his doctoral studies. While in college, he worked as reporter of an evening daily Karmabhoomi published in Trivandrum. He was the editor of several literary magazines as Grandhalokom, Malayalavimarsam, Sahityalokom, Samskarakeralam, Samakalasangeetham and Keralakavitha. After completing his formal education, he was posted as Lecturer in the Department of Malayalam, University of Calicut, where he retired from. Dr. M. M. Basheer has written over 50 books from 1967 to 2017 on Malayalam literature. He has been a recipient of Puthezhath Raman Menon Award 1989, C.J. Smaraka Dr. Abraham Vadakkel Award 1993, Abudhabi Sakthi Award 2016 and Kerala Sahitya Parishath Award 2017.