Biography:
(b. 1904; d. 1987)
Mythologist and educator, born in New York, New York. A professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College (1934 - 72), he entranced students with his analysis of comparative mythology, writing The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) and the four-volume Masks of God (1959 - 68). Although his scholarship has been criticized, he attained the status of a virtual guru through a series of television interviews by Bill Moyers in 1985 - 86.

Selected Quotes:
"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."

"When you see the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come; this is the country we will celebrate, and these are the people we are one with."

"What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else."

Writings:
· Books, Poems, essays (list)

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