**Michael Thomas *is the author of the national bestseller Man Gone Down *, winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and a New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year. His writing has appeared in A Public Space, The New York Times, and in Ben George's anthology The Book of Dads. He is a p...

**Michael Thomas *is the author of the national bestseller Man Gone Down *, winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and a New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year. His writing has appeared in A Public Space, The New York Times, and in Ben George's anthology The Book of Dads. He is a professor of English at Hunter College. He lives in Brooklyn.