Note: This photo was taken in 2004. Mike doesn't look like this anymore. He got old.
Michael Kun is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Virginia Law School. His first novel, "A Thousand Benjamins" (Atlantic Monthly Press), was published in 1990. After "A Thousand Benjamins" was published to some acclaim, much was expected of Mike (especially by his employers, who really wished he'd start doing some work). No one, however, expected that he would disappear from the literary world for 13 years. His disappearance led to rumors of his death, many of which appeared on customer reviews on amazon.com.
His second novel, "The Locklear Letters" (MacAdam Cage), was finally published in 2003.
In 2003, he signed a three-book contract with his publisher, MacAdam Cage, the first such contract in MacAdam Cage's history. The first of the three books, "My Wife and My Dead Wife" was published in June 2004. The second, "You Poor Monster" was published in 2005. The third, the short story collection, "Corrections to My Memoirs" was published in 2007.
Mike's most recent novel, "Everybody Says Hello", was published in April, 2012.
Michael co-authored the non-fiction baseball book, "The Baseball Uncyclopedia", which was published in 2006. He has also co-authored "The Football Uncyclopedia", which was published in June, 2008, and "The Movie Uncyclopedia".
Mike's short stories have appeared in Atlanta Magazine, Urbanite, Other Voices, Fiction, Indy Men's Magazine, Story Quarterly, and Cottonwood, among other publications. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Mike was profiled in the Johns Hopkins alumni magazine. To read what they had to say, click here. If you don't want to read it, don't click there. No one's forcing you.
If you'd like to send Mike an e-mail, please click here.
If you'd like to send Mike a box of candy, thanks, but please don't. He's supposedly on a diet.