Jean Houston

Novelist

Birthday May 10, 1937

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace New York

Age 87 years old

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About

Known for her association with the Human Potential Movement of the 1960s, she penned such psychologically and sociologically-themed works as A Mythic Life: Learning to Live our Greater Story and A Feminine Myth of Creation.

Before Fame

After graduating from New York's Barnard College, she earned advanced degrees in psychology and religion from two online universities.

Trivia

During the 1960s and early 1970s, she taught at Marymount College, Tarrytown.

Family Life

She met her husband, researcher Robert Masters, while both were involved in a study of the consequences of LSD use.

Associated With

She refused then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's invitation to work in the White House as a literary consultant on Clinton's book, It Takes a Village.