John Briggs, Distinguished Professor and Co-Chair of the Department of English Language, Comparative Literature, and Writing at Western Connecticut State University, is co-author of Seven Life Lessons of Chaos with the physicist F. David Peat. He is also the co-author with Peat of The Turbulent Mirror, a text aimed at nonspecialist readers that describes the science of dynamical systems, also known as chaos theory. An essay authored by Briggs Titled "God, Time, and History" is featured in the Bible textbook - "The Introduction to the History of Christianity."
Briggs is the author of more than eight books and numerous book chapters, articles, and papers.
Briggs received his B.A. from Wesleyan University, College of Letters, cum laude, 1968; M.A. in English, New York University, 1972; Ph.D. in aesthetics and psychology, The Union Institute and University, 1981.
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