Michael is an Anglican cleric, an author and a columnist. He also hosted a nightly television and radio show for 15 years, for which he won numerous awards. He’s a columnist for The Toronto Star, and a frequent contributor to the Globe and Mail, NOW magazine, TVOntario, The Walrus, Macleans, The Critic, and several other Canadian and British publications. He is the best-selling author of sixteen books, including biographies of G.K. Chesterton, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, J.R.R. Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis. He has contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography and several other anthologies and is published in many countries and in more than a dozen languages.