Jack Shepherd (1937 -- ) was born in Chatham, New Jersey, and enjoyed a global career as a journalist, writer and university professor. He worked principally as a Senior Editor at LOOK Magazine and as a writer in Newsweek’s foreign department. He has also written for other US publications including Atlantic, Harper’s, New York, Saturday Review, Outside, New York, and The Sunday New York Times Magazine. As a journalist Shepherd covered stories primarily in sub-Saharan Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia) and the Middle East (Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus). Shepherd is also the author of ten books, most recently with John Butterly, MD. Shepherd's three previous books made The New York Times best-seller list: Quotations from LBJ (with Christopher S. Wren); The Runner’s Handbook (with Bob Glover); and The Adams Chronicles.Shepherd earned his Ph.D. at age 50 (Boston University) and has taught at Boston University, the University of Cambridge (UK) for six years, and, since 1988, at Dartmouth. At the University of Cambridge, he not only taught undergraduate and graduate students, but also directed an international program that brought mid-career men and women to the university from two regions undergoing rapid transformation: post-apartheid southern Africa and post Soviet Central and Eastern Europe.He retired in 2008 although he still teaches graduate courses at Dartmouth. Shepherd continues researching and writing in his field of food security and poverty issues; his tenth book was published in October 2010 and he is now researching his eleventh.