Michael Llewellyn

Michael Llewellyn is the author of 22 published books of historical fiction, contemporary fiction, mystery and time travel. A native of Fountain City, Tennessee, Michael comes from a long line of Southern writers and memoirists. His maternal grandmother was a published novelist, and two cousins, James Agee and Tennessee Williams, won the Pulitzer Prize for their work. Michael lived in New York's Greenwich Village twenty years, working as an advertising copywriter by day and writing novels in his spare time. In 1992 he relocated to the French Quarter where was inspired to write a travel book, Edge Guide: New Orleans and Twelfth Night, (1997) a historical novel delving into the dark side of 1857 haute Creole society and the exotic caste system of the free people of color. The New Orleans Times-Picayune called it "the gilded bean in your carnival king cake." His next book, Creole Son, (2012) focused on French painter Edgar Degas, and a turbulent 1872 visit to New Orleans which deeply impacted his artistic style. In 2013, Communion of Sinners exposed the hideous treatment of the California Mission Indians by the Spanish padres. Author Anne Hillerman called it "A feast of a mystery." The Goat Castle Murder (2016) fictionalized a 1932 crime in Natchez, Mississippi, which drew world-wide attention. Michael has also ventured into time travel with Still Time (2014), Past Time (2015) and Out of Time (2016), whisking his heroine Madeleine St. Jacques to 1862 New Orleans, 1914 tsarist Russia and 1820 Haiti respectively. His novel, Unrefined, Sugar (1918) takes a humorous, bittersweet look at life in the fictional town of Meander, Tennessee, circa 1957, and his most recent book, Defamed, explores the life of Nancy Randolph, the most scandalous women in Jeffersonian America. Michael is married and lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia.