John Boynton Priestley was one of England's last great writers -- he was a member of the last generation of freethinking British sages who contemplated both science and philosophy in their literary output. Today, his books are mostly out of print and his name is all but forgotten except in the dusty, forgotten stacks of university libraries and used book dealers -- a most undeserved fate for one of the deepest thinkers and most influential essayists and playwrights of the twentieth century. ...[Read Story]