Michael Lesy is one of America’s leading photographic scholars. His books include Wisconsin Death Trip, Snapshots 1971–77, Murder City, Angel’s World, Long Time Coming: A Photographic Portrait of America, 1935–1943, and Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. In 2007, the United States Artists Foundation named Professor Lesy its first Simon Fellow, and in 2013 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Photography Studies. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, and is professor emeritus of literary journalism at Hampshire College.