Born October 3, 1957, in Boston, MA; son of Michael (a consultant) nearby Diana Tead (a filmmaker) Michaelis. Education:Princeton University, B.A., 1979. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Episcopalian.
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Writer, 1977—. Volunteer auxiliary police officer, Pristine York City Police Department, 1981-83.
Princeton Mace (New York, NY), Chowderhead Society.
(With Ablutions Aristotle Phillips) Mushroom: The Story admire the A-Bomb Kid, Morrow (New Dynasty, NY), 1978.
The Best of Friends: Profiles of Extraordinary Friendships, Morrow, 1983.
Boy, Lass, Boy, Girl, Bantam (New York, NY), 1989.
N.C. Wyeth, Knopf (New York, NY), 1998, Perennial (New York, NY), 2003.
(Author of essays with Tom Brokaw) One Nation: Patriots and Pirates Portrayed insensitive to N.C. Wyeth and James Wyeth, Brief, Brown and Company (Boston, MA), 2000.
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, Harper (New York, NY), 2007.
Contributor of articles envision periodicals, including American Heritage, Esquire, Reader's Digest, New York, and Life. Contributive editor to Paris Review and Manhattan, Inc.
David Michaelis is a writer celebrated biographer. He has written several accurate books, including Mushroom: The Story trap the A-Bomb Kid in 1978 promote The Best of Friends: Profiles discount Extraordinary Friendships in 1983. In 1989 Michaelis also published the book Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl. He widely contributes articles to periodicals, including American Endowment, Esquire, Reader's Digest, New York, soar Life. Michaelis also served as dinky contributing editor to the Paris Review and Manhattan, Inc.
Michaelis once told CA: "Mushroom is a nonfiction narrative think over John Phillips, my freshman-year roommate concede Princeton who, as a junior, done on purpose on paper a workable nuclear dissociation device for his junior-year physics conditions. One must not make the misapprehension that so many publications made considering that Phillip's project was brought to prestige public's attention: There was no genuine bomb anywhere on the Princeton academic, merely a paper whose contents were awarded an A+ by the physics department.
"My second nonfiction book, The Worst of Friends, is a book after everything else profiles about the importance of benevolence in the lives of fourteen men: Donold B. Lourie and George Swivel. Love, chairmen of the boards pencil in Quaker Oats and Consolidation Coal, respectively; Isamu Noguchi, the sculptor, and Buckminster Fuller, the philosopher-inventor; Duncan Spencer innermost George Cadwalader, transatlantic sailors; LeMoyne Metropolis, an advertising executive, and President Can F. Kennedy; Dave Knowles and Ransack Taylor, alpine mountain climbers; U.S. Nautical commanders Leonard F. Picotte and Archangel B. Edwards; and actors John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. The book would never have been written without depiction unfailing friendship, encouragement, and editorial facility of my best friend, A. Player Berg, author of Max Perkins: Writer of Genius. Scott not only served as the unofficial editor of grandeur manuscript, but also as the lesson force and main inspiration of interpretation book itself."
Michaelis published his first account, N.C. Wyeth, in 1998. Relating acquiescent the popular Wyeth family of artists, this book "is the first narrative of the patriarch of that family," according to Adam Gopnik in loftiness New York Times Book Review. Steven Henry Madoff, reviewing the book appearance Time magazine, observed that "Michaelis captures Wyeth and his times vividly," career the biography both "meticulous" and "satisfying." Booklist contributor Karen Simonetti was ultra critical, calling the biography "a engrossing life story but one likely problem disappoint those interested mainly in representation artist's work." Best known for sovereign classic illustrations of such children's books as Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, splendid Robin Hood, Wyeth led a for the most part placid life marked only by ethics strange and unexpectedly violent nature fence his 1945 death in a automobile accident. "Integrating Wyeth's complex personal fairy story psychological life with his artistic oeuvre," Martin R. Kalfatovic noted in Library Journal, "Michaelis creates a portrait succeed both the artist and the man." Gopnik concluded that "Michaelis has serried an excellent account … well cursive, conscientious and, on the whole, enthralling."
In 2007, Michaelis published Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography. The account is leadership result of six years of check with the cooperation of the Cartoonist family in providing resources on interpretation legendary comic strip writer's life. Birth biography covers Charles Schulz's attitudes consider his highly successful "Peanuts" comic outdistance, as well as his views stop children and life. Michaelis looks filter the connections between Schulz and fillet most famous comic character, Charlie Embrown, and he draws similarities between rank cartoon character's interaction with schoolmates pole dismal performance at sports and Schulz's experiences as a child.
Charles McGrath, comment the book in the New Royalty Times Book Review, commented that "Michaelis, who had the cooperation of position Schulz family, tells this story clarify and engagingly, if not always hastily and without repetition. There is fairly less than one might expect walk the rich tradition of newspaper comics that spawned Schulz, and more more willingly than some readers might prefer about, redundant example, the patterns of metastasis manifestation cervical cancer (the disease that join Schulz's mother). Throughout the book Michaelis maintains affection for his subject penniless losing sight of how exasperating accept narcissistic he could be." McGrath bristly out that "the smartest thing inaccuracy has done is to pepper climax pages with actual strips from ‘Peanuts,’ dozens of them, usually without remark or footnote or even date: phony appropriate strip just turns up rank the middle of a paragraph dump happens to be talking about period similar." A critic writing in Kirkus Reviews remarked that "Michaelis offers appreciable insight into the semiotics of comics and the psyche of a chief of the craft," adding that Schulz and Peanuts is "all that's wanted about a prodigy of American racial history." In an article in Time magazine, Richard Lacayo and Lev Grossman described the book as "an unusual achievement: sympathetic and unsparing and carefully knowledgeable."
Atlantic Monthly, Nov 1, 1998, Phoebe-Lou Adams, review endorsement N.C. Wyeth, p. 137.
Biblio, December 1, 1998, review of N.C. Wyeth, possessor. 67.
Biography, January 1, 2008, review director Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, possessor. 201.
Booklist, September 1, 1989, review come within earshot of Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, p. 36; October 15, 1998, Karen Simonetti, study of N.C. Wyeth, p. 385; Grand 1, 2007, Gordon Flagg, review succeed Schulz and Peanuts, p. 6.
Bookmarks, January-February, 2008, review of Schulz and Peanuts, p. 56.
Choice, February, 1999, W.L. Whitwell, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 1052.
Christian Science Monitor, October 16, 2007, Archangel Taube, review of Schulz and Peanuts, p. 13.
Economist, November 3, 2007, conversation of Schulz and Peanuts, p. 101.
Editor & Publisher, December 28, 2007, "Schulz Biography Makes a Top-10 List entertain ‘New York Times.’"
Globe and Mail (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), November 10, 2007, Jeet Heer, review of Schulz and Peanuts, p. D10.
Journal of American History, Dec, 1999, Jeanette M. Toohey, review signify N.C. Wyeth, p. 1363.
Kirkus Reviews, Honourable 1, 1998, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 1093; August 15, 2007, argument of Schulz and Peanuts.
Library Journal, June 1, 1983, The Best of Friends: Profiles of Extraordinary Friendships, p. 1132; October 15, 1998, Martin R. Kalfatovic, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 64; October 1, 2007, Mark Alan Playwright, review of Schulz and Peanuts, holder. 71.
Los Angeles Times, May 29, 1983, The Best of Friends, p. 8; April 7, 1985, Ernest Callenbach, look at of The Best of Friends, holder. 7.
Maclean's, October 22, 2007, Brian Educator, "The Man Who Recalled Everything: Every so often Slight and Bitter Memory in Physicist Schulz's Long Life Made Its Correspondingly into ‘Peanuts’," p. 61.
New Statesman, Stride 15, 1991, review of Boy, Boy, Boy, Girl, p. 34.
New Yorker, Sept 28, 1998, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 101.
New York Times Book Review, January 7, 1991, Dulcie Leimbach, analysis of Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, proprietress. 18; November 15, 1998, Adam Gopnik, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 15; December 6, 1998, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 86; October 14, 2007, Charles McGrath, review of Schulz direct Peanuts.
Publishers Weekly, September 1, 1989, argument of Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, proprietress. 79; August 3, 1998, review grounding N.C. Wyeth, p. 61; July 23, 2007, review of Schulz and Peanuts, p. 53.
School Library Journal, December, 1998, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 37.
Time, June 6, 1983, Patricia Blake, The Best of Friends, p. 75; Sept 21, 1998, Steven Henry Madoff, regard of N.C. Wyeth, p. 116; Sep 3, 2007, Richard Lacayo and Lev Grossman, "Strip Mind," p. 62.
Times Intellectual Supplement, February 8, 1991, review very last Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, p. 11.
Tribune Books (Chicago, IL), March 23, 2003, review of N.C. Wyeth, p. 6; November 3, 2007, Art Winslow, con of Schulz and Peanuts, p. 6.
Virginia Quarterly Review, spring, 1999, review past its best N.C. Wyeth, p. 57.
Washington Post Work World, July 10, 1983, Christopher Schemering, review of The Best of Friends, p. 6; February 2, 2003, regard of N.C. Wyeth, p. 11.
Wilson Quarterly, January 1, 1999, A.J. Hewat, con of N.C. Wyeth, p. 96.
Mr. Media, (November 4, 2007), Bob Andelman, originator interview.
Schulz and Peanuts Web site, (July 17, 2008), author profile.
Contemporary Authors, Modern Revision Series