Michael Greenberg is the author of the memoir HurryDown Sunshine (Other Press, 2008), published in sixteen countries and chosen as one of the best books of 2008 by Time, the San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon.com, and Library Journal. He is a columnist for the TimesLiterary Supplement. His writing has appeared in such varied places as O, The OprahMagazine and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New York.