Michael P. Daley is an American author and cultural historian. Daley's work primarily concerns crime, subcultures, politics, and art. He is a former counterculture archivist and political news editor. Career From 2009 to 2014, Daley was employed at Boo-Hooray as an archivist engaged in the preservation of counterculture and political movements. During his time at Boo-Hooray, he facilitated the sale of cultural collections to institutions such as Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Cornell's Rare & Manuscript Collections, Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Miami's Special Collections, and Georgetown's Lauinger Library. He has also curated exhibitions on William S. Burroughs, Ed Wood, private press vinyl, science-fiction zines, and Civil War photography in cities like New York City, Paris, London, and Montreal. One of Daley's first works as an author was That's Life: The O.L. Jaggers Story (Boo-Hooray, 2011) a short biographical pamphlet which talked about the legal struggles of a cult L.A. preacher once famed for his UFO-themed sermons. Daley has also worked as an editor for books like Feel the Music: The Psychedelic Worlds of Paul Major (Anthology Editions, 2017), Flying Saucers Are Real! (Anthology Editions, 2016), The Situationist Times facsimile edition (Boo-Hooray, 2012), and Houston Rap Tapes (Sinecure Books, 2013). First To Knock In 2017, Daley founded First To Knock, a small press publisher and sometime record label. First To Knock titles are irregularly published and include Echoes of a Natural World: Tales of the Strange & Estranged (2020), a weird fiction collection that featured contemporary fiction by Daley and others, alongside new translations of French authors such as Joris-Karl Huysmans, Marcel Schwob, and Jean Lorrain. Bobby BlueJacket: The Tribe, The Joint, The Tulsa Underworld In 2018, Daley’s Bobby BlueJacket: The Tribe, The Joint, The Tulsa Underworld was published. Released on Daley’s First To Knock imprint, the book is a biography of a Native American career thief and safecracker who became a prison journalist and ultimately an Eastern Shawnee activist. Daley researched and wrote Bobby BlueJacket over a period of six years. Referencing the microhistorical approach in the book's introduction, Bobby BlueJacket broaches larger questions about United States history through its specific focus on a single, relatively unknown individual. Ron Padgett, an award-winning author and poet, regarded the book as a "fascinating and richly detailed biography and an intimate portrait of complex emotional and intellectual life". Jack Womack, a Philip K. Dick awardee described BlueJacket