Michael Walsh (author)
Michael A. Walsh is an American music critic, author, screenwriter, media critic, historian, and cultural-political consultant.
Career
A 1971 graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., Walsh began his journalism career as a reporter and later music critic in 1972 at the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in upstate New York. He was named chief classical music critic of the San Francisco Examiner in November 1977, where in 1980 he won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for music criticism. He became music critic of Time magazine in the spring of 1981, where his cover story subjects included James Levine, Vladimir Horowitz and Andrew Lloyd Webber. He was also a foreign correspondent for the magazine from 1989 to 1996, based in Munich, Germany, from which city he covered first-hand the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of Soviet communism in 1991.Beginning in February, 2007 and running until 2015, Walsh wrote for National Review both under his own name and using a fictional persona named David Kahane, the name of which "is borrowed from a screenwriter character in The Player". This persona has evolved into one of "... a Hollywood liberal who has a habit of sharing way too much about the rules by which they live to a conservative audience."
In January, 2010, in collaboration with Andrew Breitbart, he launched BigJournalism.com, devoted to media commentary and criticism. From December 3, 2010, to the summer of 2013 he contributed a weekly opinion column for the New York Post, and in late June 2012 became a featured columnist at PJ Media. He is now the editor of the website, which deals with energy issues. His work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Vanity Fair, GQ, Playboy, Smithsonian Magazine, and Connoisseur; in Europe, he has been published in Transatlantik, Die Woche, and the British edition of Esquire. His literary works have been translated into more than twenty languages, including German, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese.
Non-fiction
Carnegie Hall: The First One Hundred Years Who's Afraid of Classical Music Andrew Lloyd Webber: His Life and Works Who's Afraid of Opera? So When Does the Fat Lady Sing? Rules for Radical Conservatives The People v. the Democratic Party The Devil's Pleasure Palace The Fiery Angel Last Stands Against the Great Reset- ''Against the Corporate Media''
Novels
Exchange Alley, a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection upon publication that has since become a cult novelAs Time Goes By And All the Saints, a fictionalized autobiography of Owney Madden's life that was a 2004 American Book Awards winner.Espionage thrillers
Hostile Intent, featuring the character of "Devlin", a top-secret operative of the Central Security Service, was published in September 2009 by Pinnacle. It reached No. 1 on the Amazon Kindle bestseller list upon its release, and twice appeared on the New York Times's extended bestseller list in October of that year.- A sequel, Early Warning, was published in September 2010.
- The third book in the series, Shock Warning, was published in late September, 2011.