Michael Barson has worked in book publicity since 1984 at such houses as Doubleday, Pantheon, FSG, G.P. Putnam and (currently) Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks. He is the author of more than a dozen books on popular culture, including RED SCARED!, TEENAGE CONFIDENTIAL (both with Steven Heller), TRUE WEST and LOST, LONELY, & VICIOUS. Barson has a Master’s degree in Popular Culture and a PhD in American Culture from BGSU in Ohio. He has worked with such authors as Kurt Vonnegut, Mickey Spillane, Tom Clancy, Lee Child, Clive Cussler, C.J. Box, Nick Hornby, Robert B. Parker, Art Spiegelman and Dave Barry, and was often referred to by Professor Harold Bloom as “noble Barsonius.”

He now lives in New Hampshire with his wife, their dog, a band of itinerant turkeys, and a hundred or so boxes of vintage books, movie posters, magazines, comics and 45’s.