Michael Adelberg was born forty-something years ago into a perfectly decent New York City family that deserved better. He underachieved through high school, then overachieved throu...view moreMichael Adelberg was born forty-something years ago into a perfectly decent New York City family that deserved better. He underachieved through high school, then overachieved through college and grad school. For the last two decades, Adelberg's earned a living as a pale and studious health policy wonk, while moonlighting as an even paler and more studious historian of the American Revolution. About five years ago, he started writing fiction in the middle of the night, resulting in two novels: A Thinking Man's Bully (2012) and The Razing of Tinton Falls (2012). Adelberg lives in Vienna, Virginia with his very tolerant wife and two remarkably well-adjusted sons.view less