Jay Martin holds Ph.D.s in Psychoanalysis and English. He has been a professor of Government, English, a supervisor in Psychiatry and Human Behavior and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He was the 2000-1 Dai Ho Chun Distinguished Visiting Professor at the U. of Hawai'i, and teaches at Claremont McKenna College. His biography of Henry Miller has been translated into many languages; other books include biographies of Nathanael West, Robert Lowell and Conrad Aiken.:.