Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937. Did she crash in the ocean? No. The CANARY reveals her final days and a surprising friendship with the young Ernest Hemingway. "Michael Loyd Gray's novel The Canary is rooted in historical fact and yet soars in poetic interludes to give a rich portrait of its complex subjects Amelia Earheart, the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic and who later was lost at sea, and young Ernest Hemingway, an author to be. A spirited read!" -- Robert Flanagan, author of Fight Night and Maggot.

Author Biography

Michael Loyd Gray was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, but grew up in Champaign, Illinois. He earned a MFA in English from Western Michigan University and has taught at colleges and universities in upstate New York, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Texas. He graduated from the University of Illinois with a journalism degree and was a newspaper staff writer in Arizona and Illinois for ten years, conducting the last interview with novelist Erskine Caldwell. He is the winner of the 2005 Alligator Juniper Fiction Prize and the 2005 The Writers Place Award for Fiction. Gray s novel Well Deserved won the 2008 Sol Books Prose Series Prize. His novel Not Famous Anymore was awarded a grant by the Elizabeth George Foundation and was released by Three Towers Press in 2012. His novel King Biscuit was released in 2012 by Tempest Books. Gray is a lifelong Chicago Bears and Rolling Stones fan and lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He teaches as fulltime online English faculty for South University, where he is one of the founding editors of the literary journal Asynchronous and sponsor of an online readings series featuring fiction and poetry. Susanna Gee is an artist living in Las Vegas, NV. Her work is widely shown. She provides the cover art of Amelia Earhart.