Michael Byers is the author of the novel “Long For This World” and the story collection “The Coast of Good Intentions.”
Writing about “Long For This World” in the Atlantic, Thomas Mallon said Byers “displays a virtousity with figurative language that puts him in a class with such new American masters as Charles Baxter and Antonya Nelson.” The Chicago Tribune praised it as “a first novel wise beyond its author’s years.”
“The Coast of Good Intentions” won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. It was a New York Times notable book of 1998.
The recipient of a Whiting Foundation Writer’s Award, Byers lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his family, and teaches at the University of Michigan.
