The author of sixteen books, including six novels and ten works of non-fiction, Michael Walsh was the classical music critic for Time Magazine and received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for distinguished music criticism in 1979 as well as the 2004 American Book Awards prize for fiction for his gangster novel, And All the Saints in 2004. His popular columns for National Review written under the pseudonym David Kahane were developed into the book, Rules for Radical Conservatives. His two last books, The Devil’s Pleasure Palace and The Fiery Angel, examine the enemies, heroes, triumphs and struggles of Western Civilization from the ancient past to the present time. He divides his time between Connecticut and Ireland.