JOSEPH CAMPBELL (1904-87) began his career in 1934 as an instructor
at Sarah Lawrence College, where he taught for almost forty years,
and where the Joseph Campbell Chair in Comparative Mythology was
established in his honor. He is the author of numerous books,
including the bestselling The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Bill Moyers is an acclaimed journalist, widely respected for his
work both at CBS News and at PBS. One of his primary efforts has
been to bring to television outstanding thinkers of our time, most
recently in the immensely popular and highly celebrated PBS series
and bestselling book A World of Ideas. His conversations with
Joseph Campbell were one of the highlights of television
programming in the 1980s.
Betty Sue Flowers teaches poetry and myth at the University of
Texas at Austin. She is the author and coauthor of several books,
including Browning and the Modern Tradition, Four Shields of Power,
and Daughters and Fathers.
“Campbell has become the rarest of intellectuals in American life:
a serious thinker who has been embraced by the popular culture.”
—Newsweek
"The symbols of mythology and legend are all around us,
embedded in the fabric of our daily lives, and the
Moyers-Campbell dialogues are a welcome guide to recognizing and
understanding their meanings." —Cincinnati Post
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