Martin Seligman

Seligman was raised in Albany, New York. As an undergraduate he
majored in modern philosophy at Princeton, then psychology. Licensed
as a psychologist in Pennsylvania in 1973, for 14 years he directed the
clinical training program of the University of Pennsylvania psychology
department.
Seligman's bibliography includes 14 books and 140 articles. Apart
from Learned Optimism, his other most popular works are What You
Can Change… and What You Can't (1994) and The Optimistic Child
(with Reivich, Jaycox, & Gillham, 1995). More scholarly works include
Helplessness (1975) and Abnormal Psychology (1982).
He is a former President of the American Psychological Association,
from which he has received two awards for Distinguished Scientific
Contribution. He is currently Kogod Professor of Psychology at the
University of Pennsylvania and is at the forefront of the "positive
psychology" movement.