Michael Maren

Michael Maren is a former Peace Corps volunteer aid worker and war correspondent All told he spent seventeen years in Africa covering wars and famines in Somalia Sudan Ethiopia and other hot spots on the continent In 1999 after the publication of his book about Somalia and foreign aid The Road to Hell he began working as a screenwriter He sold scripts to HBO Sony and independent producers He directed his first film A Short History of Decay in 2013 His second film Shriver is due to be released in 2022