Peter Michael

Award-winning author Peter Michael grew up overseas and has lived on five continents in a career of writing, international advisory roles and teaching.

He has written eight books, four of which have won national books prizes, and has appeared on C-SPAN, National Public Radio, ABC News, America Untold, Home & Garden TV, and in numerous publications. His first literary prize came as an undergraduate for an article on British polymath James Clerk Maxwell.

A graduate of the University of Maryland, Berkeley and Princeton, he has taught at the graduate level at universities in the United States, Japan, Thailand and Costa Rica

He and his wife Vicki, a painter, live on a historic Maryland farm founded in 1768 by his family. The farm is powered entirely by sun and wind.