Michael Olmert

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Michael Olmert is a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park and a writer. His specialty is British Literature. He has a Ph.D. from Maryland in medieval English literature.

He has written over 90 television documentaries, two plays, and two books. He has been awarded 3 Emmy Awards for his work on the Discovery Channel. In 2002, he received one for writing Allosaurus: A Walking With Dinosaurs Special. In 2003, he won for Walking With Prehistoric Beasts. His latest award came in 2006 for Before the Dinosaurs.

His two plays are entitled Shakespeare and Lopez and Great Creating Nature. The two books he has published are Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella (1996) and The Smithsonian Book of Books (1992).

He was inducted into the University of Maryland Hall of Fame in 2005.

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Official Bio From the University of Maryland

University of Maryland Hall of Fame Inductions, 2005

Press Release from the University on his third Emmy