A best-selling author and award-winning reporter, Michael Wallis is an historian and biographer of the American West who also has gained international notoriety as a speaker and voice talent. In 2006 Michael’s distinctive voice was heard in CARS, an animated feature film from Pixar Studios. A storyteller who likes nothing better than transporting audiences across time and space, Michael has published fifteen books, including Route 66: The Mother Road, the book credited with sparking the resurgence of interest in the highway.
Michael has been nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize and was also a nominee for the National Book Award. He has won many other prestigious honors, such as the Will Rogers Spirit Award, the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall & Western Heritage Museum, the Oklahoma Book Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, and the Best Western Non-fiction Award from the Western Writers of America.