Steven Pinker. Montreal (Canada), 1954. He was born into an English-speaking Jewish community in Montreal, Canada. He earned a BA in Experimental Psychology from McGill University and then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1976, where he spent most of his career between Harvard and MIT. Steven Pinker is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, although he has also taught at Stanford and MIT. He is an experimental psychologist doing research on visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relationships. He has won numerous awards for his research, his teaching, and his books. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, has been named Humanist of the Year, has received nine honorary doctorates, and has been included in the list of "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy magazine. and selected in the list of "The 100 most influential people in the world" compiled by Time. He is currently chair of the American Heritage Dictionary Use Committee. He writes for numerous publications such as The New York Times, Time and The Atlantic, and is the author of ten books, among which are The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Clean Slate, The World of Words and The Better Angels of Our Nature. Today, Pinker lives between Boston and Truro with his wife.