David Adams Leeming

David Adams Leeming is a biographer, author, and the son of an Episcopal priest born in Peekskill, New York. Dr. Leeming received his PhD from New York University with the thesis, "Henry James and the French Novelists," after serving a year as a professor in Istanbul. After Lemming graduated, he worked for the iconic author James Baldwin, who would later become the subject of what critics refer to as Leeming's finest work, "James Baldwin: A Biography." Leeming also wrote other significant biographies on Beauford Delaney and Stephen Spender.

Leeming has served as a traveling lecturer as well as Professor Emeritus at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Lemming is well known for his significant body of work regarding the study of myth, which includes works such as "World of Myth," "God: Myths of the Male Divine," "Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine," "Oxford Companion to World...