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 and won the 2010 California Book Award for nonfiction. His forthcoming work, DISTILLED SPIRITS -- Getting High then Sober with a Famous Writer,
a Forgotten Philosopher and a Hopeless Drunk, will be published in Fall 2012 by University of California Press. It's a memoir/group biography that takes the Harvard story back a generation and looks at how
writer Aldous Huxley, philosopher Gerald Heard and Bill Wilson, the
co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, transformed the landscape of Western religion and spirituality in the 20th century.

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.