J. Michael Dolan
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History geek since a kid. Novelist for the past ten years. Humanist to the day I die.
A hippie gypsy since college, I've lived all over the western hemisphere, from the islands of Hawaii to the west, the Virgin Islands to the east, New York City to the north, olde Mexico to the south. In the course of which I received that education only travel can give. Finally came the day I settled down with a beloved rescue dog in the rolling Texas pasturelands east of Austin. Where in a cocoon of green silence and solitude I write novels about things no other author has. To quote the Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, "If you want to read a book that hasn't been written, you must be the one to do so."
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Mrs. Wallenberg: a Holocaust Romance
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Historical Romance
Though this tour de force of historical fiction opens in 1997, Dolan quickly whisks you back to a time befitting the genre. Her health failing, the aged if still feisty Berber Smit recalls the sizzling love affair she had in Budapest half a century earlier with the greatest hero of the Holocaust, the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. Nor does her story stop there. Having joined him not only in bed but in his efforts to wrest Hungary's last surviving Jews from the clutches of a blood-crazed Adolf Eichmann, Berber gives an insider's account of what made Raoul the legend he is today. "A tale of unparalleled courage laced with uncensored desire." -- NewInBooks 
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