Blair Kamin, a 1979 graduate of Amherst, is the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune , offering an insightful, masterfully told tale of this idyllic college campus. Kamin lectures widely and has appeared on numerous radio and television programs to discuss architecture. Ralph Lieberman is an architectural historian and photographer who has published on a broad range of subjects, ranging from Renaissance architecture in Venice to the Crystal Palace. He has taught at Amherst and Williams Colleges. He was the photographer for Williams College: The Campus Guide , and he previously collaborated with Kamin on Gates of Harvard Yard , both published by Princeton Architectural Press. Christopher Beck is an illustrator, designer, artist, and writer. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and dog.