Jerome Bruner, the eminent psychologist and a groundbreaker in the study of cognition, perception, and the "nature of knowing." offers an intensely personal and rigorous account of the growth of psychology and of the men and women who have contributed to it over the last half century. We come to know a man whose relentless intellect defies categorization. His work has expanded the strict limits of psychology to embrace questions about the growth of language and the issue of education itself as he has striven passionately to create a bridge between science and the humanities.

Among his best-known works are A Study of Thinking, The Process of Education, and On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand. This delightful, witty, always heady memoir is an impressive complement to a lifetime of achievement.