Susan Baur, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist with graduate degrees from Harvard University and Boston College. She has written six other books, The Edge of an Unfamiliar World: A History of Oceanography; On Almost Any Wind: The Saga of the Oceanographic Research Vessel Atlantis; Hypochondria; Woeful Imaginations; The Dinosaur Man and Other Tales from the Back Ward; Confiding: A psychotherapist and Her Patients Search for Stories to Live By; and The Intimate Hour: Love and Sex in Psychotherapy. She lives in North Falmouth, Massachusetts.