Michael David Lukas

Michael David Lukas (born March 30, 1979) is an American author best known for his internationally bestselling novel, The Oracle of Stamboul, published by HarperCollins[1] and translated into over a dozen languages.

[2] Michael's second novel, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo, was published by Random House[3] in 2018 and received the Sami Rohr Prize[4] as well as the National Jewish Book Award.

[6] His writing has been published in The New York Times,[7] Wall Street Journal,[8] and the San Francisco Chronicle.

[10] He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,[11] the Santa Maddalena Foundation,[12] and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

Moving East to attend Brown University,[17] Lukas studied comparative literature and then received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the creative writing program at the University of Maryland.