Michael Lesy
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Michael Lesy (born 1945) is a writer and professor of literary journalism at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. His books, which combine historical photographs with his own writing, include Wisconsin Death Trip (1973), ‘Real Life: Louisville In The Twenties’ (1976), Bearing Witness: A Photographic Chronicle of American Life (1982), Visible Light (1985), Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties (2007), and Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century with Lisa Stoffer (2013).
Lesy grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio and studied at Columbia University, The University of Wisconsin and Rutgers University, where he attained a doctorate in American cultural history.
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Bibliography
| Year | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Wisconsin Death Trip | Pantheon Books |
| 1976 | Real Life: Louisville in the Twenties | Pantheon Books |
| 1980 | Time Frames: The Meaning of Family Pictures | Pantheon Books |
| 1982 | Bearing Witness: A Photographic Chronicle of American Life | Pantheon Books |
| 1985 | Visible Light | Crown Publishing Group |
| 1987 | The Forbidden Zone | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
| 1991 | Rescues: The Lives of Heroes | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
| 1997 | Dreamland: America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century | The New Press |
| 2002 | Long Time Coming: A Photographic Portrait of America, 1935-1943 | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2005 | Angel's World: The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2007 | Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2013 | Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century (with Lisa Stoffer) | W. W. Norton & Company |
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