Educated in the classics, philosophy, literature, theology, and sociology, Edward Curtin is a former professor of sociology. Once a newspaper columnist, his writing on a wide range of topics and in many styles has appeared in magazines, newspapers, scholarly journals, and online for more than forty years. Born and raised in the north Bronx, he attended Regis High School in Manhattan on an academic scholarship and Iona College on a basketball scholarship. Aside from holding multiple graduate degrees, he has worked in an elevator factory, as a sexual disease epidemiologist for the U.S. government, a bartender, and an interviewer in a NYC police precinct holding jail. His last book is Seeking Truth in A Country of Lies. He lives in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts.