Rate My Professor Miles Harvey

Harvey is renowned for his contributions to both fiction and creative nonfiction. His short-story collection The Registry of Forgotten Objects (Mad Creek Books, 2024) won the Society of Midland Authors Award for Best Work of Adult Fiction, the Journal Non/Fiction Prize from The Ohio State University Press, was a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association Best Book of the Year, and was longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize. His nonfiction books include The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch (Little, Brown & Co., 2020), longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Chautauqua Prize, named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Michigan Notable Book of 2020, an Amazon Best Book of the Month in History & Biography, and a finalist for the Society of Midland Authors Award for Biography and Memoir; The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Random House, 2000), a national and international bestseller; and Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America (Random House, 2008). He edited The Garcia Boy: A Memoir by Rafael Torch and How Long Will I Cry?: Voices of Youth Violence, an oral history with over 50,000 copies in print (Big Shoulders Books, 2011-2012).