A trial lawyer by day and a writer by night, Michael Kahn is the award-winning author of 11 Rachel Gold novels (including his latest, BAD TRUST); a stand-alone novel, THE MOURNING SEXTON (under the pen name Michael Baron); and several short stories.

A former elementary school teacher in the Chicago Public Schools, Mike wrote his first novel, GRAVE DESIGNS, on a challenge from his wife Margi, who got tired of listening to the same answer whenever she asked him about a book he was reading. “Not bad,” he would say, “but I could write a better book than that.”

“Then write one,” she finally said, “or please shut up. I don’t want to hear you 50 years from now telling your great-grandkids that you could have written a book.”

So he shut up for a while --- no easy task for an attorney --- but eventually he wrote GRAVE DESIGNS (originally published in hardcover under the title THE CANAAN LEGACY).

In addition to his day job, where he represents individuals and companies in the fields of creative arts and media law, Mike is an adjunct professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches a class on censorship and free expression.

Mike married his high school sweetheart. They are the parents of five and the grandparents of, so far, five. His happiest moment as a writer: having his kids take one of his books to school for show-and-tell.

Michael A. Kahn