Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy has been in the book business since shortly after the Earth cooled (June 8th, 1981). His first 13 years were with Random House, where he was a VP of Sales. He went on to become the Publisher of William Morrow. After Morrow's acquisition by NewsCorp and merger into HarperCollins, Michael set up his own literary agency, Max & Co. He and his family left New York and moved to New Orleans in 2009, the year the Saints finally won a Super Bowl. Michael had felt the city was "Home" the first time he came to the city in 1983. Now here, they are never leaving. EAT DAT, the story-filled portrait of New Orleans' restaurants, food carts, pop-ups along with chefs, waiters, & oyster shuckers, is conceived as the first of a New Orleans Trilogy, or Dat-Rilogy. HEAR DAT (New Orleans music scene) and FEAR DAT (VooDoo, vampires, graveyards, & ghosts) are to follow. These three areas are the primary reasons New Orleans draws over 9 million visitors each year. EAT DAT is brought fully to life by over 50 stunning photographs by Rick Olivier