Description:
The Art of Being Human draws some much-needed attention to the impact great literature can have in considering how we might learn from the past in order to inform our present decisions and plan for the future.
Brief description: MICHAEL S. ROSE is author of several previous books, including Goodbye Good Men, Ugly As Sin, and Benedict XVI: The Man Who Was Ratzinger. He holds degrees in Architecture (Cincinnati), Literary Arts (Brown), and Education (Xavier), as well as the Certificate of School Management and Leadership from Harvard Business School. From 2005 to 2021 he served as Book Editor and Associate Editor for New Oxford Review, in which some of these essays appeared in slightly different form as a part of his monthly "Literature Matters" column. He also taught literature, composition, journalism, and rhetoric at the college and high school levels before assuming his current position as Headmaster of Cincinnati Classical Academy. He is married with five children and lives in Cincinnati.