Schaffer, Michael

Michael Schaffer, author of "One Nation Under Dog", is a former staff writer at "The Philadelphia Inquirer", "US News & World Report", and "Washington City Paper", and has written for "The Washington Post", "Slate", "The Daily Beast", and "The New Republic", among other publications. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Keltie Hawkins, and their daughter, Eleanor. They insist that their own pets, Murphy the Saint Bernard and Amelia the black cat, are not freakishly pampered.