Morris Philipson was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1926.
After spending a year at the Université de Paris, he did his under-
graduate and master's work at the University of Chicago, and
received his doctorate from Columbia University. In 1952 he was
a teaching fellow in the humanities program at the College of the
University of Chicago. He has taught English literature, cultural
history, and philosophy at Hofstra College, the Juilliard School of
Music, and Hunter College. For 1956-195h he was awarded a
Fulbright fellowship to study at the University of Munich. Dr. Philipson
edited the Meridian volume of Aldous Huxley, On Art
and Artists ( 1960), and has published articles and stories in,
among other publications, The Reporter, Esquire, The Journal of
Philosophy, Commonweal, Saturday Review, and New Directions
16. He is presently editor of Vintage Books, and a member of the
editorial staff of Random House, Inc.

AN ORIGINAL MERIDIAN BOOK
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First printing April 1961

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