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Michael Coffey Author & Editor

Michael Coffey received a B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame and an M.A. from Leeds University in Anglo-Irish Literature. After university, he moved to New York and began a career in publishing. He has authored three books of poems; a book about baseball's perfect games; and co-edited a book about Irish immigration to America, which was a companion volume to the PBS documentary series The Irish in America. The former co-editorial director of Publishers Weekly, he divides his time between Manhattan and Bolton Landing, New York. The Business of Naming Things is his first work of fiction.