Michael Wolraich is the critically acclaimed author of The Bishop and the Butterfly, Unreasonable Men, and Blowing Smoke. His writing has appeared in RollingStone, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, TIME Magazine, New York Magazine, CNN.com, Reuters, and other publications. Wolraich grew up in Iowa and graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts before moving to New York City, where he has lived since 2000.

Books:

• THE BISHOP AND THE BUTTERFLY: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age (Union Square & Co., 2024)

• UNREASONABLE MEN: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

• BLOWING SMOKE: Why the Right Keeps Serving Up Whack-Job Fantasies about the Plot to Euthanize Grandma, Outlaw Christmas, and Turn Junior into a Raging Homosexual (Da Capo Press, 2010)