About the Author

Alan C. Logan is an award-winning author, historian, and social commentator. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he was educated there through the peak of the Troubles. This cultivated a fine-grained appreciation of the impact of conflict, injustice, and inequality on individuals and societies. He obtained his liberal arts degree from the State University of New York, at Purchase. Alan has published extensively on the history of science and medicine, and is the co-author of Your Brain on Nature (Harper Collins, 2012) and The Secret Life of Your Microbiome (New Society, 2017). More recently he has turned his attention to cults, con men and post-truth. His true-crime non-fiction book Self-Styled: Chasing Dr. Robert Vernon Spears (Glass Spider Publishing, 2019) was a Feathered Quill Award Finalist.