Michael O. Riley

Michael O. Riley has been a dancer, a banker, and a university professor specializing in British and German Romanticism and Children’s Literature. His book OZ AND BEYOND: THE FANTASY WORLD OF L. FRANK BAUM is considered one of the seminal works on America’s most popular children’s fantasy writer. Riley is also a bookbinder and a letterpress printer. He has a lifelong love of detective stories and the American Musical Theater.