This is the web site of Dr. Jennifer Michael Hecht. Historian, poet, philosopher. Dr. Hecht does a great deal of traveling, speaking to all sorts of groups about the various subjects her writings address, including belief, doubt, happiness, history, science, the arts, and community.
Doubt: A History (HarperSanFrancisco, 2003)	Visit me at the Best American Poetry web site; my blog there is called The Lion and the Honeycomb. I also have a personal poetry blog at "Dear Fonzie."	The Happiness Myth (HarperOne, 2007)
The Next Ancient World (Tupelo Press, 2001)	Funny (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005)	The End of the Soul (Columbia University Press, 2003)