Michael Foster - Dangerous Woman: The Life, Loves, and Scandals of Adah Isaacs Menken, 1835-1868, Americas Original Superstar

Michael Foster, novelist, biographer, and historian, graduated from Cornell with honors in philosophy. He received an MFA from the Writers Workshop, Iowa, and did extensive graduate study and taught at NYU. His first novel, Freedoms Thunder, was praised by Nobel laureate Isaac B. Singer.

Joint publications of the Fosters also include Forbidden Journey: The Life of Alexandra David-Neel, a classic of adventure travel; and Three in Love: Menages a Trois from Ancient to Modern Times, the history of the romantic triangle. Praised by Entertainment Weekly, the Washington Post, and Bookwoman, Three in Love has been published in German, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, and Turkish.

The authors most recent book is the highly acclaimed and widely translated The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel: A Biography of the Explorer of Tibet. The Fosters have written articles for magazines as diverse as Travel and Leisure, Topic, The Evergreen Review, the Anglo/French Chimera, and the Internets PopMatters. They are the authors of a dozen print and Net articles on Adah Menken, including a cover story for Nineteenth Century. The Fosters host an interactive website devoted to Adah Menken and her heritage: TheGreatBare.com.

Barbara Foster, former professor at CUNY, specializing in womens studies, has co-authored three trade books. She has published many articles on education and travel and some 200 poems in journals in various countries. She lectures often in the United States and abroad and has packed auditoriums from Washingtons Smithsonian to Cal Tech, Sidney, Buenos Aires, and Prague. Barbara appears on television, radio, and in print and online interviews.

They live in New York City.