Columbus native, Michael J. Rosen is a creator of art in many forms. Best known as the author a wide variety of more than 150 books for both adults and young readers—poet, editor, writer of fiction and non-fiction, humorist,,  playwright, and longtime champion and editor of James Thurber's works—he has worked in the field of art, design, and illustration even since first publishing drawings in The New Yorker and Gourmet while he was in graduate school. His ceramics have been exhibited throughout the area and are currently featured at the Columbus Museum of Art. His design work and illustrations have appeared in countless magazines, brochures, advertising programs, and exhibitions.  Many of his books engage his degree in zoology and his passion for nature and the creatures who share this world. For the last 22 years, he’s lived on 100 forested acres in the foothills of the Appalachians, east of Columbus, Ohio, where he spent most of his life. Source