B.A., M.A., D.Phil., Oxford University

Allan Hunter was born in England, educated at Oxford University (where he gained his doctorate in English literature) and after traveling in India and Africa came to the U.S. in 1986. For more than twenty years he has been a teacher and a counselor and has been at Curry College since 1986. He is the author of two books—The Sanity Manual and Life Passages (2000)—both of which use his revolutionary techniques of writing for personal exploration. He is also the co-author of his father’s wartime memoir From Coastal Command to Captivity, has written a full length study of Joseph Conrad and a novel, How They Met (2001). He is currently completing a book about overcoming writing blocks.