About the Author

Surgeon, author, educator, inventor, and speaker Leonard Shlain is the author of three critically acclaimed books. He is the Chairman of Laparoscopic Surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and is an Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF. His award-winning books include Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light (HarperCollins), published in 1991 and presently used as a textbook in many art schools and universities; The Alphabet vs. The Goddess; and Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution.

Dr. Shlain lectures widely both here and in Europe. He has been a keynote speaker for such diverse groups as the Smithsonian, Harvard University, Salk Institute, Phillips collection, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, and the European Union’s Ministers of Culture. In 1999, he was a contributor to Academic Press’ Encyclopedia of Creatitvity edited by Steven Runco and Mark Pritzker.