Michael Ventura (born October 31, 1945) is an American novelist, screenwriter, film director, essayist and cultural critic.
[1] Michael Ventura commenced his career as a journalist at the Austin Sun, a counter-culture bi-weekly newspaper published in the 1970s.
Ventura is best known for his long-running column, "Letters at 3 A.M.", which first appeared in LA Weekly in the early 1980s and continued in the Austin Chronicle until 2015.
An excerpt from his novel about Miriam of Magdala was published in the third issue of the CalArts literary journal Black Clock in 2005.
With psychologist James Hillman, Ventura co-authored the 1992 bestseller We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy – And the World's Getting Worse.