Eric Wein­er is the author of the New York Times best­sellers The Geog­ra­phy of Bliss and The Geog­ra­phy of Genius, as well as the crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed Man Seeks God and, his lat­est book, The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philoso­phers. A for­mer for­eign cor­re­spon­dent for NPR, he has report­ed from more than three dozen coun­tries. His work has appeared in the New Repub­lic, The Atlantic, Nation­al Geo­graph­ic, The Wall Street Jour­nal, and the anthol­o­gy Best Amer­i­can Trav­el Writ­ing. He lives in Sil­ver Spring, Mary­land, with his wife and daughter.