Mike Nichols is an award-winning, syndicated newspaper columnist and senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.

In addition to Just a Few Sleeps Away, he is also the author of The Waking, a mystery published by HarperCollins.

A graduate of Boston College and the University of Chicago, he lives in Cedarburg, Wis., with his wife, Jane, and their three kids. He can be emailed here.