Irvin D. Yalom, MD, emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University and renowned psychotherapist, is the author of many internationally bestselling books, including Love’s Executioner, The Gift of Therapy, Becoming Myself, and When Nietzsche Wept.
Marilyn Yalom, PhD, was a world-famous professor of French and comparative literature, a pioneering scholar in gender studies, a popular speaker on the lecture circuit, the author of numerous articles on literature and women’s history, and books including A History of the Wife, Birth of the Chess Queen, How the French Invented Love, as well as her final book released posthumously, Innocent Witnesses: Childhood Memories of World War II.
Irvin and Marilyn Yalom were married for sixty-five years.