ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MARC J. SEIFER has a bachelor of science degree from the University of Rhode Island, postgraduate work in graphology at New School University, a master’s degree from the University of Chicago, and a doctorate in psychology from Saybrook University. He has taught courses on consciousness at Providence College School of Continuing Education for fifteen years and presently teaches psychology at Roger Williams University. (Location 12026)

An expert on the inventor Nikola Tesla and also in the field of graphology, Dr. Seifer has lectured at West Point Military Academy, Brandeis University, at the United Nations, CCNY, the New York Public Library, the Open Center in New York, LucasFilms Industrial Light & Magic, at Oxford and Cambridge universities in England, the University of Vancouver, Canada, in Israel, at conferences in Serbia and Croatia sponsored by the Serbian Academy of Science, and elsewhere throughout the United States. His articles have appeared in Wired, Civilization, Parapsychology Review, Psychiatric Clinics of North America, and Cerebrum. Featured in Brain/Mind Bulletin, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Daily, New Scientist, The Economist, Rhode Island Monthly, Cosmopolitan, Woman’s World, Glamour, and on the back cover of Uri Geller’s book MindMedicine, Dr. Seifer has also appeared on national public radio on “To the Best of our Knowledge,” on the Morning Show, Canberra Radio Australia, on the BBC, and on TV on the Tom Bergeron Show, The History Channel, and Associated Press International TV News. (Location 12029)

Acting as a consultant for Biography, Sixty Minutes, The American Experience, and the BBC, he is listed in Marquis’s Who’s Who in the World. Other works include fiction: Rasputin’s Nephew, Doppelgänger, Crystal Night; and nonfiction: Transcending the Speed of Light, The Definitive Book of Handwriting Analysis, Mr. Rhode Island, and the biography Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, Biography of a Genius. Called “a serious piece of scholarship” by Scientific American, “revelatory” by Publisher’s Weekly, and a “masterpiece” by best-selling author Nelson DeMille, Wizard is “highly recommended” by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (Location 12037)