About Michael Bible
Michael Bible is the author of five novels. Sophia (2015), Empire of Light (2018), The Ancient Hours (2020) from Melville House Books, Little Lazarus (2025) from Clash Books, and The Terrible forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press in 2026. His novels The Ancient Hours and Little Lazarus were both bestsellers in Italy with the publisher Adelphi Editions. He’s the screenwriter of the feature film Dogleg, streaming on MUBI. His fiction and nonfiction can be seen in The Oxford American, The Baffler, Paris Review Daily, New York Tyrant, Forever Magazine, Southwest Review, BBC Radio, The Guardian, Joyland, and LA Review of Books among others. His novels have been featured in The New York Times, The Believer, NPR, Esquire Italia, and Vanity Fair Italia among others. He received an MFA from The University of Mississippi under the mentorship of the writer Barry Hannah and was a writer’s assistant for screenwriter David Milch.
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