The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World

David Malouf is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. He is the author of poems, fiction, libretti and essays. In 1996, his novel Remembering Babylon was awarded the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His 1998 Boyer Lectures were published as A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness. In 2000 he was selected as the sixteenth Neustadt Laureate. His most recent novel is Ransom.

Tom Peters was born in Baltimore in 1942. He is a civil engineering graduate of Cornell and earned an MBA and PhD at Stanford; he holds honorary doctorates from institutions that range from the University of San Francisco to the State University of Management in Moscow. He has worked as a White House drug-abuse advisor, and a Partner and co-founder of Organization Effectiveness practice. Tom and his wife Susan Sargent now live on a 1,600-acre working farm, in Vermont.