Don Lattin is an award-winning author and journalist. His five previously published books include The Harvard Psychedelic Club, a national bestseller that was awarded the California Book Award, Silver Medal, for nonfiction. His feature articles have been published in dozens of leading magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle, where Lattin worked as a staff writer for twenty years. His latest book is Changing Our Minds.

Click here to read Don’s lecture, “Timothy Leary’s Legacy and the Rebirth of Psychedelic Research,” from September 28, 2017 at the opening of the Houghton Library Exhibition “Altered States: Sex, Drugs and Transcendence in the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library.” Copyright © 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted with permission.