Michael Walsh

Michael Walsh is one of the well established authors from The United States, who is famous for writing novels based on the spy fiction and thriller genres. He has also made a name for himself as a media critic, screenwriter, and music critic. Author Walsh’s popular novels include the spy thiller book series featuring the popular character named Devlin. Walsh has also written a sequel novel to Casablanca as well as a fiction work set around the life of Owney Madden. Author Walsh started his writing career in the year 1987 with the release of his first nonfiction book called Carnegie Hall. He had collaborated with author Richard Schickel for completing this book. The first novel that Walsh wrote was published in 1997 under the title of Exchange Valley. Walsh was born on October 23, 1949. He completed his graduation from the Eastman Music School, Rochester, New York, in the year 1971. Following this, he joined the Democrat & Chronicle to work as a reporter. Walsh was involved in reporting for several articles related to heroin abuse in Rochester. For this, he was awarded with the first prize of the Publishers Association of New York State, which he shared along with a couple of his other colleagues. Aged 23 in 1973, Walsh became a critic of classical music of the paper. In 1977, he went on the become the chief critic of a San Francisco based paper. His music criticism fetched him the ASCAP Deems Taylor prize in 1980. The following year, Walsh became a music critic for the Time magazine. At this time, he mainly involved in covering stories related to Vladimir Horowitz, Lloyd Webber, Andrew James Levine, etc.