Michael Elihu Colby virtually grew up at New York's legendary Algonquin Hotel, which his grandparents, Ben and Mary Bodne, owned from 1946-1987. His adventures there are portrayed in the book The Algonquin Kid. In theater circles, he is the librettist/lyricist of a number of musicals. A member of BMI and the Dramatists Guild, he lives in Metuchen, New Jersey, with his wife Andrea and son Steven.
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The true life story of Michael Elihu Colby and his childhood days at Manhattan’s Algonquin Hotel. His grandparents Mary and Ben B. Bodne had traded their southern oil fortune for the legendary but faded Algonquin and restored the hotel’s former glory.... SEE MORE