Michael Shelden

Michael Shelden is the author of six biographies, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist, Orwell: The Authorized Biography, which was also a New York Times Notable Book. For fifteen years, he was a features writer for the London Daily Telegraph, and for ten years he served as a fiction critic for the Baltimore Sun. His most recent books are Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill, and Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick.