About me
Richard Michelson's many children’s books have been listed among the Ten Best of the Year by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The New Yorker; and among the Best Dozen of the Decade by Amazon.com. He has received a National Jewish Book Award and two Sydney Taylor Gold Medals (and two silver) from the AJL. Michelson's 2025 publications include More Than Enough: a story Inspired by Maimonides’s Golden Ladder of Giving; Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama's First Presidential Seder; What Louis Brandeis Knows; and Fanny's Big Idea: How Jewish Book Week was Born.