American author (born 1949)
Michael Walsh
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Born
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1949-10-23
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October 23, 1949
(age 74)
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Nationality
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Michael A. Walsh
(born October 23, 1949
[1]
) is an American music critic,
author
, screenwriter, media critic, historian, and cultural-political consultant.
Career
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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,
[2]
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.
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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 movie) The Player".
[3]
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."
[4]
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,
[5]
and in late June 2012 became a featured columnist at
PJ Media
. He is now the editor of the website
the-Pipeline.org
, 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
.
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His literary works have been translated into more than twenty languages, including German, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese.
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Bibliography
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Non-fiction
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- Carnegie Hall: The First One Hundred Years
(Harry N. Abrams, 1987)
- Who's Afraid of Classical Music
(Fireside Books, 1989)
- Andrew Lloyd Webber: His Life and Works
(Abrams, 1989, updated 1997)
- Who's Afraid of Opera?
(1994)
- So When Does the Fat Lady Sing?
(Amadeus, 2008)
- Rules for Radical Conservatives
(as David Kahane; Ballantine, 2010)
- The People v. the Democratic Party
(Encounter Broadside, 2012)
- The Devil's Pleasure Palace
(Encounter Books, 2015)
- The Fiery Angel
(Encounter Books, 2018)
- Last Stands
(St. Martin's Press, Dec. 2020)
- Against the Great Reset
(Bombardier Books, 2022)
Novels
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- Exchange Alley
(1997), a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection upon publication that has since become a cult novel
- As Time Goes By
(sequel to the film
Casablanca,
1998)
- And All the Saints
(2003), a fictionalized autobiography of
Owney Madden
's life that was a 2004
American Book Awards
winner.
Espionage thrillers
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- 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.
[6]
- The third book in the series,
Shock Warning
, was published in late September, 2011.
Film
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Cadet Kelly
,
a 2002 Disney Channel Original Movie (co-written with Gail Parent) starring
Hilary Duff
was, until
High School Musical
,
the highest-rated
Disney Channel
movie in history. He also wrote and produced the 1995 documentary
Placido Domingo: A Musical Life
for PBS, and wrote the narration for the 1999 video version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical,
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
.
Other
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A lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, Walsh has written
Hard Headed Woman,
a biopic of the rockabilly singer
Wanda Jackson
, for LD Entertainment, and
25/7
for Disney. Scripts in development include
How High the Moon,
about the lives of
Ella Fitzgerald
and
Billie Holiday
;
Hound and Horn,
set in 1940s Marseilles; and
The Harp,
a feature film/television series set in rural 19th-century Ireland. His Cold War script,
Charlie
(
Mikael Hafstrom
, director), is currently in the financing and casting stage.
Personal life
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He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the
Wende Museum
in Los Angeles.
[7]
His principal residences are in rural Connecticut and in
County Clare
, Ireland.
References
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- ^
"Library of Congress Authorities (Search for Name, Subject, Title and Name/Title)"
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authorities.loc.gov
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McGrath, Molly Brigid (July 25, 2018).
"Michael Walsh's Anti-Satanic Verses"
. Law & Liberty.
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"David Kahane/Michael Walsh - National Review"
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National Review
. September 30, 2010.
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"Kahane's Ruling Ways - Interview - National Review Online"
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National Review
. Archived from
the original
on September 29, 2010
. Retrieved
September 28,
2010
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"PARS ? NY Post Reprints"
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www.nypost.com
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Andrew Breitbart presents Big Journalism feat. Editor in Chief Michael Walsh
Archived
September 18, 2010, at the
Wayback Machine
Retrieved: 2010-09-08
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"People"
. The Wende Museum
. Retrieved
August 27,
2019
.
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