Frederic Will is a writer and retired Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts. He has taught in China, India, Russia, and at several major African universities, as well as throughout the USA. He has published widely and often, and is currently completing a ten-volume sequence, Inside Selfhood and History, which brings together issues of aesthetics and practical morality. At present, he is working on the morality of writing, which is constantly a choice among expressions. His lifetime opus constitutes a major contribution to the understanding and expression of the human sciences.