Michael McGirr is the bestselling author of Snooze, Bypass, Things You Get for Free and Books That Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure. He has reviewed almost one thousand books, his short fiction has appeared in publications in Australia and overseas, and he has been publisher of Eureka Street and fiction editor of Meanjin. He is a high-school teacher and lives in Melbourne with his wife, Jenny, and their three teenage children.
