Carlos Eire, Ph.D. was born in Havana in 1950, fled to the U.S. in 1962 without his parents, and worked full-time jobs while attending high school and college. He is now the T. L. Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. Author of many books in the social, intellectual, religious, and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe, he has also published a memoir, Waiting for Snow in Havana (2003), which won the National Book Award in nonfiction in the United States and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. In his most recent work, he tackles the history of the impossible.