Michael DatcherMichael Datcher is the author the East St. Louis historical novel AMERICUS and the critically-acclaimed New York Times Bestseller RAISING FENCES-a Today Show Book Club Book of the Month pick. The film rights were originally optioned by actor Will Smih's Overbrook Productions, who hired Datcher to write the screenplay. Datcher's play SILENCE was commissioned by and premiered at the Getty Museum. He is co-host of the weekly public affairs news magazine Beautiful Struggle on 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles. His writing is widely anthologized, including appearances in the volumes What Makes A Man (Penguin), Brown Sugar 3 (Simon Schuster), Soulfires (Penguin), Testimony (Beacon Press), Another City (City Lights), and Body and Soul (Crown), among others. Datcher is editor of THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FACT: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction. Datcher is on the faculty of Loyola Marymount University's English Department. Read More Read Less