Jack El-Hai

Jack El-Hai is the author of many books and articles on medicine, science, and history. He has written more than 500 articles and essays for The Atlantic, Scientific American Mind, Wired, American Heritage, The History Channel Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, and other publications. His books include The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII (PublicAffairs Books), Non-Stop: A Turbulent History of Northwest Airlines (University of Minnesota Press), and The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness (John Wiley & Sons, 2005, winner of the annual book award of the Medical Journalists' Association of the U.K.). El-Hai is a faculty member in the MFA program in creative writing at Augsburg College. You can learn more about his work at http://el-hai.com.