Michael Graham Fry is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the University of Southern California and was a Fellow of the Royal History Society, United Kingdom. He received his PhD in international history from University of London. Fry has written and edited nine books, contributed to several monographs, and published widely in journals in Britain, Canada, France, Israel, and the United States. The review in The Times Literary Supplement of his first book, Lloyd George and Foreign Policy: The Education of a Statesman, 1890-1916, described it as the seminal work, the point of departure for all other scholars. And Fortune Fled completes his study of Lloyd George, foreign policy, and international relations.