David Tead Michaelis (born October 3, 1957) is an American writer since the late 1970s. As a biographer, Michealis wrote about N.C. Wyeth, Charles Schulz and Eleanor Roosevelt. He won the 1999 Ambassador Book Award in the Biography & Autobiography category with N.C. Wyeth: A Biography and was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography in 2021 with Eleanor. With his non-fiction works, Michaelis also co-wrote John Aristotle Phillips's biography and solely wrote about male friendship. Outside of non-fiction, Michaelis released the 1989 fiction book titled Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl. Apart from literature, Michaelis edited The Paris Review in the 1970s. The following decade, he wrote for Manhattan, inc. and volunteered with the New York City Police Department. Early life and education Michaelis's birth occurred in Boston, Massachusetts on October 3, 1957. During the 1960s, Michaelis enjoyed The Beatles and archery. For his post-secondary education, Michaelis attended Princeton University and lived with John Aristotle Phillips. In 1976, Michaelis and Phillips were co-authors of an unreleased theatrical production while at Princeton. During the 1970s, they created the Aristotle Pizza Delivery Agency for the university. Their company also sold popcorn and frozen yogurt at Princeton. By the late 1970s, Michaelis was a short story author before he became interested in nonfiction. Career Literature In 1977, Michaelis and Phillips wrote about "their experiences with the atomic bomb and growing up in the 70s" with a book scheduled to be released as Falling Upward the following year. With Mushroom: The Story of the A-Bomb Kid, their 1978 book was about Phillips and the atomic bomb blueprint he created while at Princeton. While reviewing the book for The Central New Jersey Home News, Lawrence Ausubel believed that fictional newspapers were included in Mushroom. In 2017, a planned movie based on the book was announced by Deadline. In 1983, Michaelis published The Best of Friends: Profiles of Extraordinary Friendships. For The Best of Friends, Michaelis mainly wrote about males who were not famous. Of the fourteen people in the book, some people Michaelis discussed included John F. Kennedy and Isamu Noguchi. With his 1989 fictional book titled Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, Michaelis wrote about a man remembering his time at Miss Little's School for Girls when he was a teenager. By the early 1990s, Michaelis had begun writing about perfectionism for a fictional book. He then changed his focus to a N.C. Wyeth