Michael Eric Dyson - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!
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Updated on January 06, 2026
Explore Michael Eric Dyson net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! Author of Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina, and the Color of Disaster. He also received three NAACP Image Awards. In this article, we will discover how old is Michael Eric Dyson? Who is Michael Eric Dyson dating now & how much money does Michael Eric Dyson have?
| Name | Michael Eric Dyson |
| First Name | Michael |
| Last Name | Dyson |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Birthday | October 23 |
| Birth Year | 1958 |
| Place of Birth | Detroit |
| Home Town | Michigan |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Libra |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Known |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
Michael Eric Dyson Biography
Michael Eric Dyson is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on October 23, 1958 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. His book, Is Bill Cosby right? Or Has the Black Middle Class lost its mind? won the 2006 NAACP Image Award, for Outstanding Non-Fiction Literary Works.
Michael Eric Dyson (born 1958) is an academic, author, preacher, and radio host. He is Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Described by Michael A. Fletcher as “a Princeton Ph.D. and a child of the streets who takes pains never to separate the two”, Dyson has authored or edited more than twenty books dealing with subjects such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Marvin Gaye, Barack Obama, Nas’s debut album Illmatic, Bill Cosby, Tupac Shakur and Hurricane Katrina.
Dyson has a son, Michael Eric Dyson II, born on May 22, 1978, in Detroit with his first wife, Theresa Taylor. Also, Mwata and Maisha Dyson and three grandkids.
Marcia Louise was his third wife. He wed her in 1992. He was previously married with He married his third wife, Marcia Louise, in 1992. He was previously married to Theresa Taylor and Brenda Joyce..
He was a professor at Brown, Columbia, North Carolina University, Georgetown University, and the University of North Carolina. He is also known for The Michael Eric Dyson Radio Show, which debuted in 2009.
Dyson was born on October 23, 1958, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Addie Mae Leonard, who was from Alabama. He was adopted by his stepfather, Everett Dyson. He attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, on an academic scholarship but left and completed his education at Northwestern High School. He became an ordained Baptist minister at nineteen years of age. Having worked in factories in Detroit to support his family, he entered Knoxville College as a freshman at the age of twenty-one. Dyson received his bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Carson–Newman College in 1985. He received a Ph.D. in religion from Princeton University in 1993 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled “Uses of heroes: celebration and criticism in the interpretation of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.” Dyson served on the board of directors of the Common Ground Foundation, a project dedicated to empowering urban youth in the United States. Dyson and his third wife, Marcia L. Dyson, were regular guests and speakers at the Aspen Institute Conferences and Ideas Festival. “2011 Speakers. Marcia Dyson”, Aspen Ideas Festival. Dyson most recently hosted a television show, The Raw Word.
Michael Eric Dyson Net Worth
Michael is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Eric Dyson's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)
When he was nineteen years old, he became an ordained minister of the Baptist church. He later received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in religion.
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Novelist |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
In a 2018 debate with conservative Candace Owens on MSNBC’s The Beat, Dyson called Owens a “little girl”. Dyson has since apologized for doing so.
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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The Michael Eric Dyson Show radio program debuted on April 6, 2009, and is broadcast from Morgan State University. The show’s first guest was Oprah Winfrey, to whom Dyson dedicated his book Can You Hear Me Now? The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson. The show appears to have been discontinued with its last episode being in December 2011.
Who is Michael Eric Dyson Dating?
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| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
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Dyson has taught at Chicago Theological Seminary, Brown University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Columbia University, DePaul University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2007, he has been a Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Between 2016 and 2018, he was a visiting professor at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. His 1994 book Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X became a New York Times notable book of the year. In his 2006 book Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster, Dyson analyzes the political and social events in the wake of the catastrophe against the backdrop of an overall “failure in race and class relations”. In 2010, Dyson edited Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic, with contributions based on the album’s tracks by, among others, Kevin Coval, Kyra D. Gaunt (“Professor G”), dream hampton, Marc Lamont Hill, Adam Mansbach, and Mark Anthony Neal. Dyson’s own essay in this anthology, “‘One Love,’ Two Brothers, Three Verses”, argues that the current US penal system disfavors young black males more than any other segment of the population. His last three books appeared repeatedly on the “New York Times” Bestseller list. Dyson hosted a radio show, which aired on Radio One, from January 2006 to February 2007. He is also a commentator on National Public Radio, MSNBC and CNN, and is a regular guest on Real Time with Bill Maher. Beginning July 2011 Michael Eric Dyson became a political analyst for MSNBC. In May 2018, he participated in the Munk debate on political correctness, arguing alongside Michelle Goldberg against Stephen Fry and Jordan Peterson. In August 2018, he spoke at the funeral of Aretha Franklin.
Facts & Trivia
Michael Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Michael Eric Dyson celebrates birthday on October 23 of every year.
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