Through the exacting eyes of Norman Cousins, photographer and world traveler, the world seems one. But it has yet to become whole. So his life has been devoted to being a representative voice for wholeness. American essayist and editor, presidential adviser, citizen-diplomat, intimate of the world's great (Schweitzer, Einstein, Nehru, Kennedy, and Pope John XXIII), and humanitarian, Norman Cousins has urged ways of seeing that promote options for humanity.
Cousins was born in Union City, New Jersey, on June 24, 1914. Before age five he had earned the nickname "The Professor." English composition was his best subject in school and his hobbies were writing, reading, and baseball. After graduation form Teachers College, Columbia University, he embarked on an editorial career. For over forty years, form editor in 1940 to editor emeritus in 1980, Cousins served on the staff of Saturday Review. His editorial policies brought the floundering magazine form a circulation of 15,000 to more than 650,000 at its height.
Author of hundreds of essays and more than a dozen books, he has won an impressive array of awards including the Thomas Jefferson Award for the Advancement of Democracy in Journalism, the Benjamin Franklin Citation in magazine journalism ht Overseas Press Club award for excellence in repotting foreign affairs, and the Eleanor Roosevelt peace Award. His works have ranged form a book of reflections on atomic every an world government Modern Man is Obsolete (1945), to his most noted contributions, Anatomy of an Illness (1979). This book describes his use of optimism, laughter, and positive patient threatening collagen disease that at one point paralyzed most of his
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