After Dinner Speakers: Andrew Harvey, Lisa Kudrow, Patsy Palmer

Andrew Harvey was born in South India but was educated privately in England and at Oxford University. At the age of 21, he became the youngest person ever to be awarded the Fellow of All Souls College, England’s highest academic honour. In 1977, Harvey returned to India to begin his spiritual search. He has since lived in London, Paris, New York, and San Francisco, and has continued to study a variety of religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity. Harvey has written and edited over 30 books and been awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Mind Body Spirit Award for Mary's Vineyard: and the Christmas Humphries Award for A Journey In Ladakh. Among Harvey's other well-known titles are The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying; Dialogues with a Modern Mystic; The Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi; Hidden Journey; The Essential Gay Mystics; and Son of Man.