Don Lattin is a freelance journalist and the author of four books. His most recent work, THE HARVARD PSYCHEDELIC CLUB – How Timothy Leary, Andrew Weil, Ram Dass and Huston Smith Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America, was a national bestseller in 2010. It’s the never-before-told story of how a young and jealous Andrew Weil got Tim Leary and Richard “Ram Dass” Alpert kicked out of Harvard in the early 1960s. They, along with religion scholar Huston Smith, go on to lay the foundations for the social and spiritual revolution of the sixties and seventies.

Lattin's other books are Jesus Freaks - A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge (HarperOne 2007) and Following Our Bliss - How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today (HarperSanFrancisco 2003). He is the co-author (with Richard Cimino) of Shopping for Faith – American Religion in the New Millennium (Jossey Bass 1998)

Don has taught religion writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, where he holds a degree in sociology. He served as Managing Editor of the God, Sex and Family project for the “News21” program at UC Berkeley. For more information, go to www.new21.org.