James Geary

JAMES GEARY is the deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and the former editor of the European edition of Time magazine. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism, I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists, and Wit's End.