John Briggs (author)

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John Briggs, Distinguished Professor and Co-Chair of the Department of English Language, Comparative Literature, and Writing at Western Connecticut State University, is co-author of Seven Life Lessons of Chaos with physicist F. David Peat.

Briggs is also the co-author with Peat of The Turbulent Mirror, a text that describes chaos theory. An essay authored by Briggs titled "God, Time, and History" is featured in "The Introduction to the History of Christianity" textbook.

Early life and education

Briggs received his B.A. from Wesleyan University, College of Letters, cum laude, 1968; M.A. in English from New York University, 1972; Ph.D. in aesthetics and psychology from the online Union Institute & University, 1981.