A native New Yorker, Michael Greenberg is the author of Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writers Life and Hurry Down Sunshine, which has been published in sixteen countries and was 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 Times Literary Supplement, where his wide-ranging true life stories have been appearing since 2003. His writing has been published in such varied places as O, The Oprah Magazine, and The New York Review of Books.
He lives in New York.