An interview with author Michael McKnight
Author Michael McKnight. Editor’s note: Margo Farris from pages: a bookstore caught up with Michael McKnight this week for a brief interview preceding his book-signing and reading at the store Thursday night, Oct. 4, at 7 p.m.] Where are you from and what is your background? I was born and raised in Floridaand graduated from the Universityof Florida. I moved to Los Angeles in 1996 and chose Hermosa Beach because it reminded me of Palm Bay, the small town where I was born. It still does. I met a beautiful South Bay girl here in 1999 and she agreed to marry me for some reason and then I duped her into giving us two amazing daughters. What caused you to be so interested in Henley’s story, why is it so significant for you? I remember vividly lounging in my dumpy college apartment with my roommate and stumbling on a headline about an NFL player who was charged with running a drug trafficking operation. The idea of this reckless double life had a magnetic effect on me. It seemed made-up, like bad fiction—“Wait, so he covered Jerry Rice by day and ran kilos of cocaine by night? How? Who is this person?” I kept the story in my back pocket for about ten years and my fascination with it…
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