Rollo May (1909-1994) taught at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, and was Regents' Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. An influential psychologist, he was the best-selling author of Love and Will, as well as the author of The Courage to Create, Man's Search for Himself, The Meaning of Anxiety, and Psychology and the Human Dilemma.

"An extraordinary book on sex and civilization... An important contribution to contemporary morality." Newsweek "Wise, rich, witty and indispensable... It should have led any list of important books." The New York Times"