John Edward Mack

Non-Fiction Author

Birthday October 4, 1929

Birth Sign Libra

Birthplace New York

DEATH DATE Sep 27, 2004 (74)

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About

An American biographer, professor, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize winner, he is perhaps best known as an authority on alien abductions. His works include Nightmares and Human Conflict and Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters.

Before Fame

He graduated with honors from Harvard Medical School in 1955. He later became a certified psychoanalyst.

Trivia

He helmed a controversial, decade-long study on alien encounters and interviewed over two hundred men and women who reported recurrent extraterrestrial abductions. 

Family Life

He grew up in New York City. With his wife Sally, he had three children.

Associated With

He worked with Carl Sagan and others to promote the elimination of nuclear weapons and end the Cold War.