Mitchell Hadley is a novelist and television historian. His work spans fiction and nonfiction, exploring memory, identity, and the cultural narratives that shape personal experience.
His fiction includes The Collaborator, a novel written in the form of a play intended to be read rather than performed, which examines Vatican politics, institutional power, and internal conflict; and The Car, an existential mystery about identity, mortality, and meaning.
His forthcoming novel, The Book of Revelations (June 2026), is a literary work structured around fractured memory, shifting identity, and the long aftermath of childhood trauma. It continues his exploration of how personal and historical narratives shape self-understanding.
In nonfiction, he is the author of Darkness in Primetime and The Electronic Mirror, which examine classic television and its relationship to American cultural and political life. He writes about television and media at itsabouttv.com.
Across both fiction and nonfiction, his work focuses on how inherited narratives—religious, cultural, political, and personal—shape perception and identity.
He lives in Northeast Indiana with his wife.
