Mike Davis is the author of several books including
Planet of Slums,
City of Quartz,
Ecology of Fear,
Late Victorian Holocausts, and
Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa'aloa, Hawaii.
Michael Sprinker was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His
Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the History of Historical Materialism and
History and Ideology in Proust are also published by Verso. Together with Mike Davis, he founded Verso's Haymarket Series and guided it until his death in 1999.