Michael Thal
After graduate school, Michael Thal moved to Southern California from the frigid Northeast. He taught elementary and middle school for 28 years until a freak virus left him deafened. At the age of 50, he reinvented himself as a writer composing over 80 published articles in print magazines as well as novels for middle grade and high school aged students.
His books include Goodbye Tchaikovsky, The Abduction of Joshua Bloom, and The Koolura Series—The Legend of Koolura, Koolura and The Mystery at Camp Saddleback, and Koolura and the Mayans. His newest novel, The Lip Reader is for adult readers.
