Michael McGirr is the author of the best-selling Things You Get For Free, a comedy about travelling in Europe with his mother. It was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction in 2001.
Michael was a member of the Jesuit order for twenty years and worked as a Catholic priest for seven. He is an editor and regular newspaper columnist, and his latest book is Bypass: The Story of A Road. The book recounts his bicycle journey from one end of the Hume Highway to the other- “flabby, unfit and forty”. | 
