Michael Carin

Michael Carin majored in political theory at McGill University, where he also studied under the godfather of Canadian literature, Hugh MacLennan. He graduated with an honours B.A. in 1972. For several years he taught English composition at Concordia and McGill. During the mid-’80s, he wrote feature articles and reviews for the Books section of the Montreal Gazette. From 1986 to 1994, he was Director of Communications for a real estate consulting firm. For twelve years thereafter, he was Editor-in-Chief of Montreal Business Magazine, distributed in the Quebec edition of The Globe and Mail. He is the author of several novels including Five Hundred Keys, The Neutron Picasso, and Churchill At Munich (finalist for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize, and winner of the Whistler Independent Book Award for fiction). His non-fiction response to the Holocaust, The Future Jew, won him wide recognition as a provocative secular humanist. Mr. Carin’s regard for the values enshrined in the American constitution obliged him to write Guilty Men, an indictment of those responsible for enabling the election of a Manhattan mountebank to the presidency of the United States. His novel, The Kremlin Papers, traces Russian influence over that American president from the perspective of his Kremlin overseers. Mr. Carin’s satire, The Anti-Trump, lampoons the mountebank’s 2016 presidential campaign. Most recently, in the novel Edisson and Jeremiah (winner of the Guernica Prize), Mr. Carin posits the story of history’s most controversial magic show—while laying bare the pathological duality of American culture.