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", "Granta", and many other international outlets. During the winter he lives in Key West, Florida, with his wife, Linda, and he spends the rest of the year traveling in Europe and Africa.