Norman Cousins (1915–1990) was the longtime editor of Saturday Review, a role he held for more than three decades. Under his stewardship the magazine became one of the most influential cultural publications in America.
A tireless advocate for peace, world government, and the healing power of the human spirit, Cousins chronicled his own recovery from illness in Anatomy of an Illness, a landmark work on the mind’s role in medicine that remains widely read today.