Michael Korda

writer, former Editor-in-Chief, Simon & Schuster

Michael Korda is a novelist and the former editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster. He has published numerous works by high-profile writers and personalities such as William L. Shirer, Will and Ariel Durant, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. From a commercial point of view, he is best noted for pioneering best-selling novels by authors such as Jacqueline Susann and Harold Robbins, that in the 1960s were considered very daring. Korda is also the *New York Times* bestselling author of *Horse People*, *Country Matters*, *Ulysses S. Grant*, *Cat People*, *Journey to a Revolution*, and *Ike*.