The Broadcast Century and Beyond: A Biography of American Broadcasting by Robert L. Hilliard

Michael C. Keith was born in Albany, New York. After serving in the Army, he spent a decade as a broadcaster and then became a college professor and eminent radio studies scholar. He has authored dozens of books, articles, and short stories. Among the former are a critically praised memoir (The Next Better Place), the most widely used text on radio (The Radio Station), a young adult novel (Life Is Falling Sideways), and 14 collections of stories (And Through the Trembling Air, Hoag's Object, Everything is Epic, Of Night and Light, Sad Boy, The Collector of Tears, The Near Enough, Bits, Specks, Crumbs, Flecks, Slow Train, Perspective Drifts Like a Log on a River, Let Us Now Speak of Extinction). At the present time, he has new works in production. His short stories have appeared in countless webzines and printed anthologies and have been nominated for the Pushcart Award, PEN/O.Henry Award, and several others.