Michael Schreiber is a writer, curator, and teacher based in Chicago.
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Michael Schreiber’s first book, One-Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin, was named a 2017 Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association and a 2017 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, among its many other accolades. A film adaptation of One-Man Show is currently in development.
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Michael’s second book, written in collaboration with his husband Jason Loper, is the award-winning This American House: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Meier House and the American System-Built Homes, about their experiences restoring a Wright-designed house in Iowa.
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Michael’s writing also appears in the collections Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America and The Young and Evil: Queer Modernism in New York, 1930-1955.
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He is the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, and writing residencies at The Desert House, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the North Dakota Museum of Art. He is also the recipient of a 2025 George Mills and Louise Noun Popular History Award from the State Historical Society of Iowa.
As the executor for the artistic estate of Bernard Perlin, Michael has co-curated multiple solo exhibitions of the artist’s work, most recently at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee and Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York. He appears with Perlin and with the subject of his new book, Don Bachardy: An Artist’s Life, in the GLAAD Media Award-nominated documentary film, Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes.
Michael lives in Chicago, where he continues his additional work of the past 30 years as a teacher and life coach for children and young adults with autism.