News
March 11, 2013
Michael Olmert’s career as an English professor started almost by accident. But since filling in for a sick faculty member to teach Shakespeare more than 25 years ago, he has made teaching and scholarship as much a part of his professional life as the creative writing for which he has won so many awards.
With five books, three plays, two feature films, an IMAX film, over 90 TV documentaries, three Primetime Emmys, and some 200 magazine articles, reviews, and essays to his credit, he shows no signs of slowing down. One of the country’s foremost commentators on Colonial Williamsburg, Mike has published two recent essays on the cultural and material life of the founding city.