Michael Llewellyn is the author of nineteen published books in the genres of historical fiction, contemporary fiction, mystery and time travel. A native of Fountain City, Tennessee, Michael comes from a long line of Southern writers and memoirists. His maternal grandmother was a published novelist, and his maternal grandfather was a Methodist minister who penned powerfully literate sermons. A cousin, James Agee, won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, A Death in the Family. Michael lived in New York's Greenwich Village twenty years, working as an advertising copywriter by day and writing novels in his spare time. In the '70s he published four historical romances under the name Maggie Lyons before relocating to the French Quarter where his passion for New Orleans and its history led to a travel book, Edge Guide: New Orleans and Twelfth Night, (1997) a historical novel delving into the dark side of 1857 haute Creole society and the exotic caste system of the free people of color. The New Orleans Times-Picayune called it "the gilded bean in your carnival king cake." His next book, Creole Son, (2012) focused on French painter Edgar Degas and a turbulent 1872 visit to New Orleans which deeply impacted his artistic style. In 2014, Michael ventured into time travel with Still Time and Past Time, whisking his heroine Madeleine St. Jacques to 1862 New Orleans and 1914 tsarist Russis respectively. He lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia.