Michael Keith Olson

Michael Keith Olson: Author, Journalist, Syndicated Radio and Podcast Host

Olson has produced, written, photographed and filmed feature-length news for a variety of media, including the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, NBC, ABC, Australian Broadcast Commission, and KQED Public Television. His efforts helped win a National Emmy nomination for NBC Magazine with David Brinkley.

Olson authored the Ben Franklin Book-of-the-Year – MetroFarm; is producer and host of the syndicated Food Chain Radio show – CA’s Ag/News Show of the Year; and is the producer and co-host of China Now Radio - Podcast.

Olson’s most recent book, Tales from a Tin Can, is a story of World War II in the Pacific, from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay – as told by the officers and men of the USS Dale DD-353 – a Navy destroyer that received 12 major Battle Stars. It is available in print, digital and audio (in a full-cast production featuring 50 voice actors performing the Dale sailors' firsthand accounts).

• Publishers Weekly Starred Review: "An impressive accomplishment."

• The U.S. Navy Institute: "...the narratives are effectively interwoven...a highly personal and compelling story...and a fine companion to Hornfischer's Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Calhoun's Tin Can Sailor...an authentic narrative of the daily life of these heroic men – iron men in ships of tin."

• William L. McGee, author, The Solomons Campaigns: "Tales From a Tin Can is one of the best books I've read on Tin Can history – one hell of a read and difficult to put down."