About the Author

Kay Young is associate professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Reviews

"Books that manage to bridge two cultures remain a rare commodity, no doubt because authors who can fill the in-between void are hard to find. Imagining Minds is such a book and Kay Young is such an author; I recommend both without reservation. Kay Young is an original scholar, possessed of a fresh voice. In equal parts, one hears a committed respect for human weakness, a quiet bemusement at human folly, and a celebration of human intellect. She certainly has good reason to celebrate her own intellect, which she has cultivated so carefully that she is as much at home in philosophy of mind and neuroscience as she is in literary analysis. When she says 'I feel, therefore, I am the mind's story, ' she speaks for the writers under her microscope--Austen, Eliot, Hardy--and she knows whereof she speaks." --Antonio Damasio, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Director, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, and author of Descartes' Error, The Feeling of What Happens, and Looking for Spinoza

"Kay Young's Imagining Minds is an excellent book: insightful, timely and distinctive, well-informed, and written in a style that is clear, concise, lively, and engaging. It will be a must-read book for narrative theorists, comparable to Lisa Zunshine's Why We Read Fiction and Alan Palmer's Fictional Minds." --Alison A. Case, professor of English, Williams College