A recipient of the George Washington Prize, Kevin J. Hayes lives and writes in Toledo, Ohio. He has published widely on American literature, history and culture, including Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain in Reaktion’s ‘Critical Lives’ series.
"""Hayes has given us an engaging companion to Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, and much more. From interesting stories and oft-omitted facts, Hayes weaves a rich and colorful tapestry of each act of a life that Franklin himself compared to a play. Informative and insightful, well-researched and marvelously comprehensive for its brevity, Hayes's book is pound-for-pound one of the best introductions to our greatest American Founder.""--Kevin Slack, Hillsdale College, Michigan, and author of ""Benjamin Franklin, Natural Right, and the Art of Virtue"""