You absolutely revel in your ignorance.
Arianna Huffington is a nationally syndicated
columnist and author of seven books. She is also the
chair of the Center for Effective Compassion,
dedicated to reinvigorating our communities and
promoting greater citizen involvement in the solution of
social problems. Born in Greece, she moved to
England when she was sixteen and graduated from
Cambridge University with an M.A. in Economics.
At twenty-one she became President of the famed debating society, the Cambridge
Union. Her first book, The Female Woman, a critique of extremism in the feminist
movement, was published in 1974 by Random House and translated into eleven
languages. In 1978 she published After Reason, a book on political leadership and
the intersection of politics and culture. Her biography of Maria Callas: The Woman
Behind the Legend, published in 1981 quickly became an international bestseller.
Her fourth book, The Gods of Greece, celebrated the power of myths as guides to
forgotten dimensions of life and ourselves, and was recently republished by Atlantic
Monthly Press, with paintings by Francoise Gilot.
Her biography of Pablo Picasso, Picasso: Creator
and Destroyer, published in 1988, was a major
international bestseller, translated into sixteen
languages. The book was recently reissued by Avon
Books to coincide with the release of "Surviving
Picasso", a film based on the book, produced by
Merchant-Ivory for Warner Bros. and starring
Anthony Hopkins. In 1994, she published The
Fourth Instinct on the longing for meaning in a
secular world.
Her latest book, Greetings from the Lincoln
Bedroom, a book of political satire, has just been released by Crown.
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