Michael Leon was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, graduating from Baruch College of the City University of New York. He published his first novel, The Faithful and the Fallen, in August 2008. Ending as a cliff-hanger, Michael published the sequel, Enemy Within - a Washington Conspiracy, in October 2014. Out of the Cellar is the retitled first revision of The Faithful and the Fallen, published in July 2015. Before the Sermon is Michael’s first documentary based on a two-year research project on The Bible.