Michael Tomasky

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Michael Tomasky is a liberal American columnist, journalist and author. He is currently the editor of Guardian America, the American-skewed online version of The Guardian.

Tomasky was born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia. He is a columnist at New York, where he has written "The City Politic" column since 1995. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Harper's Weekly, The Nation, The Village Voice, The New York Review of Books, Dissent, Lingua Franca, George, and GQ. He later became executive editor of The American Prospect and editor of Guardian America.

Tomasky is the author of Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America (1996), a study of the intellectual collapse of the American left. He is also the author of Hillary's Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign (2001), a chronicle of Hillary Clinton's successful election to the Senate in 2000.

As of 2007, Tomasky lives with his wife in Silver Spring, Maryland.

[edit] Works

Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America, Michael Tomasky, Free Press, June 10, 1996, ISBN 978-0684827506
Hillary's Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign, Michael Tomasky, Free Press, February 15, 2001, ISBN 978-0684873022