Michael Rips

Michael Rips is the author of The Golden Flea, Pasquale’s Nose, and The Face of a Naked Lady. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice William Brennan and Judge Henry Politz of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; he writes and lectures on constitutional law and has practiced constitutional appellate litigation, including landmark cases before the Supreme Court. Rips is the author of three volumes of memoir: The Golden Flea, The Face of a Naked Lady, and Pasquale’s Nose. He is the executive director of the Art Students League of New York and lives in the Chelsea Hotel in New York City.