John Kenneth Galbraith

Born in 1908, John Kenneth Galbraith is Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a leading author of thirty-three books spanning three decades, including The Affluent Society, The Good Society, and The Great Crash. He received honorary degrees at Harvard, Oxford, the University of Paris, and Moscow University, and in 1997 entered the Order of Canada and received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2000, at a White House event, he was awarded the Medal of Freedom Medal. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.