Michael Mewshaw

Michael Mewshaw 's more-than-four-decade career spans fiction, nonfiction, literary criticism, and investigative journalism. He is the author of, among other titles, the nonfiction works Life for Death , Short Circuit , and Between Terror and Tourism: An Overland Journey Across North Africa ; the novel Year of the Gun ; and the memoirs Do I Owe You Something? and If You Could See Me Now . He has published hundreds of articles, reviews, and literary profiles in The New York Times , The...See more

Michael Mewshaw 's more-than-four-decade career spans fiction, nonfiction, literary criticism, and investigative journalism. He is the author of, among other titles, the nonfiction works Life for Death , Short Circuit , and Between Terror and Tourism: An Overland Journey Across North Africa ; the novel Year of the Gun ; and the memoirs Do I Owe You Something? and If You Could See Me Now . He has published hundreds of articles, reviews, and literary profiles in The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Nation , Newsweek , Harper's Magazine , Granta , and many other international outlets. During the winter he lives in Key West, Florida, with his wife, Linda; he spends the rest of the year traveling in Europe and Africa. See less