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Occupation	Author/Professor/historian/poet
Introduction	I am the author of five books of history, philosophy, and poetry. Doubt: A History demonstrates the history of religious doubt all over the world, through all history. My most recent book, The Happiness Myth, brings a skeptical eye to modern science about the good life. The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology won the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s 2004 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award “for scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.” My poetry books are The Next Ancient World, which won awards including from the Poetry Society of America, and Funny, which Publisher’s Weekly called, “one of the most original and entertaining books of the year.” I have prose and poetry in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. I teach in the Graduate Writing Program at The New School University.

Occupation

Author/Professor/historian/poet

Introduction

I am the author of five books of history, philosophy, and poetry. Doubt: A History demonstrates the history of religious doubt all over the world, through all history. My most recent book, The Happiness Myth, brings a skeptical eye to modern science about the good life. The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology won the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s 2004 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award “for scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.” My poetry books are The Next Ancient World, which won awards including from the Poetry Society of America, and Funny, which Publisher’s Weekly called, “one of the most original and entertaining books of the year.” I have prose and poetry in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. I teach in the Graduate Writing Program at The New School University.