Michael Tomasky

Michael Tomasky was born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, the son of a trial lawyer and a schoolteacher. He earned a degree in journalism from West Virginia University and a master’s in political science from NYU. His career began in New York, where he worked at The Village Voice and New York magazine before relocating to Washington, D.C. in 2003. Tomasky has served as editor of The American Prospect, helped launch the U.S. edition of The Guardian, and currently edits both The New Republic and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications. He is the author of five nonfiction books and one nonfiction e-book. Killing Baby Hitler is his first work of fiction―at least the first one he meant to write.