Michael Lesy was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio and attended Columbia University, The University of Wisconsin and Rutgers University. He studied with William Appleman Williams at Wisconsin, Warren Sussman at Rutgers and was befriended by Walker Evans at Yale. Lesy is the author of the classic Wisconsin Death Trip, Dreamland, Real Life, The Forbidden Zone, Bearing Witness, Time Frames, Rescues, Visible Light and most recently, Long Time Coming. He is currently a professor of literary journalism at Hampshire College in western Massachusetts.
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