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Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of four books of history and three volumes of poetry and served as a judge for the Nonfiction category of the 2010 National Book Award. Her bestseller Doubt: A History demonstrates a long, strong history of religious doubt. Hecht’s 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.” The Happiness Myth brings a skeptical eye to modern wisdom about the good life. Her latest book, Stay: the History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, will be released by Yale University Press in November. Hecht’s poetry books are The Next Ancient World which won three national poetry awards; Funny which Publisher’s Weekly called “one of the most original and entertaining books of the year”; and Who Said, coming from Copper Canyon Press in October. Her prose and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. Hecht earned her Ph.D. in the History of Science from Columbia University in 1995 and now teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University and The Graduate Writing Program of The New School University.
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