Richard Smith began life as an English major. After graduating from Princeton, he worked in publishing for twelve years, including stints as managing editor of The Hudson Review and World Policy Journal. In his thirties, he retooled as a clinical psychologist, and now maintains a private practice in Washington, D.C. He serves on the core faculty of the Center for Existential Studies and Psychotherapy, for which he gives talks on plays and novels, ranging from Sophocles to Toni Morrison, exploring how an existential sensibility can shed new light on these works. Richard’s next book will be another narrative sonnet sequence, set in 16th-century England during Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries and the country’s lurches back and forth between Catholicism and Protestantism.
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