David Michaelis is the New York Times bestselling author of Schulz and Peanuts and N. C. Wyeth, which won the Ambassador Book Award for Biography. As the author of six books, he grew up in Cambridge, Mass., and Washington, D.C. and was educated at Concord Academy and Princeton University. His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, American Heritage, LIFE, Reader’s Digest, American Scholar, and Best American Essays. He lives in Westchester County, New York with his family.