Walsh, Michael: - The author of sixteen novels and non-fiction books, Michael Walsh was the classical music critic and a foreign correspondent for Time Magazine, and received the 2004 American Book Awards prize for fiction for his gangster novel, And All the Saints. His books The Devil's Pleasure Palace and The Fiery Angel examine the enemies, heroes, triumphs, and struggles of Western Civilization from the ancient past to the present, while Last Stands (2020) explores the reasons why men fight to end when all is lost. He divides his time between Connecticut and Ireland.