John J. L. Mood

Author, Philosopher, Professor, Writer

Mood, a Ph.D. in literature and philosophy, taught at the university level for ten years. He published numerous scholarly articles (PMLA, Chicago Review. Philosophy Today) on existentialism (Nietzsche, Heidegger) and literature (Beckett, Swift, Frost, Sexton). After leaving academia, he became a freelance writer popularizing astronomy, while continuing his literary interests, especially in Joyce and the German-language poet Rainer Maria Rilke. His book, Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties, has been in print with W. W. Norton continuously since 1975, making it the second largest selling book on Rilke in the entire English-speaking world.