Everybody's Daughter (33 page)

Michael John Sullivan graduated from St. John’s University with a communications degree and a promising future in the field of journalism after working for the official school paper the previous two years. Six months later, he found himself washing his hair in a toilet at the same university as he prepared for a job interview.

Riding a New York City subway train at night, his only companion was a green plastic bag of belongings. During these bleak days, he began writing his most reflective and emotional childhood and adult memories now featured in two of his novels,
Necessary Heartbreak
and
Everybody’s Daughter
.

Sullivan spent almost a month on the E train at night until he was rescued by relatives. After spending much of the past two decades raising their daughters while working at home, Sullivan returned to his notes in 2007 and began writing
Ne
c
essary Heartbreak: A Novel of Faith and Forgiveness
. It was published by Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books imprint in April 2010. He finished
Everybody’s Daughter
in 2012 and is currently writing the last book in the series,
The Greatest Christmas
.

Sullivan lives in New York with his family. You can find him at
MichaelJohnSullivan.com
for more information about the series.