The author is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University, where he also teaches four courses at the interface of psychiatry and literature in Modern Thought. He has written six novels and a short story collection. He and his wife split time between Stanford and the Northern Coast of California.
If Dante had left a journal, what would it say about how he came to write his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy? What if he actually took a journey into a Hell-on-Earth and then continued upwards towards the stars?
