Michael Lackey is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, USA. He is series editor of Bloomsbury's Biofiction Studies series and author or editor of 13 books, including of The Modernist God State: A Literary Study of the Nazis’ Christian Reich (Bloomsbury, 2012), Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists (Bloomsbury, 2014), The American Biographical Novel (Bloomsbury, 2016), and Ireland, the Irish, and the Rise of Biofiction (Bloomsbury, 2021). He is also recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar award, and the Obama Institute Fellowship.