MICHAEL CONNIFF graduated from Harvard with honors in History and won a summer fellowship at the Harvard Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government to research the career of his father, Frank Conniff, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
As a Harvard Fellow he taught writing to freshman and became the first Harvard writing instructor to use word processing as a teaching tool—and the only Journalism Tutor ever appointed at Harvard's Eliot House. A pioneer in the online world, Mr. Conniff is founder and CEO of Murray Lane Ventures LLC.
He is also an Expert-in-Residence at Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at WeWork, and a Mentor at AWS Global Fintech Accelerator. In addition, he is host of The Angel and The Accelerator podcasts, and a co-founder of the Isaacson School for Communications, Arts and Media in Aspen, Colorado.
His novel, BOOK OF O’KELLS: MOTHER NATURE, reached the Amazon Top Ten list for Historical Fiction. The author of more than a dozen published short stories, he was selected as a Sokolov Scholar in Fiction at the Breadloaf Writers Conference. THE GOOD EGG—from the multimedia, multi-form BOOK OF O’KELLS—was the first and only novel ever conceived and consummated on Facebook. His has also written how-to book called WRITE GOOD! to be published in fall 2023.
For more: Michael Conniff Story on Facebook; @michaelconniff on Twitter; and michaelconniff.com.
