Joseph Campbell (New York, 1904-Honolulu, 1987) was with Mircea Eliade mythologist the most important of the second half of the twentieth century. Emeritus professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, was a renowned writer and lecturer on topics of mythology and comparative religion. Among his many books are worth mentioning: The Hero with a Thousand Faces: psychoanalysis of the myth (1949, Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1959), The Masks of God (4 volumes, 1959-1969; Alliance, 1991), The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: As Metaphor As Myth and Religion (1986), The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays (1959-1987), The Mythic Image (1974), Transformations of Myth Through Time (1990), A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living (1991), Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: On the Art of James Joyce (1993), Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor (2001) and Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal (2003).