Kevin J. Hayes

Kevin J. Hayes spent most of his twenties as a bike bum. Returning home from distant parts of the globe, he would regale friends with stories of his two-wheeled adventures. He now channels his story-telling abilities to reconstructing the lives of people from the past. He has told the stories of some intrepid cyclists of the high-wheeled era, but his main focus has been on leading figures in American history and culture—Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and George Washington. Hayes is a recipient of the George Washington Prize.