Reynold Feldman

Reynold Ruslan “Ren” Feldman was born in New York City on November 6, 1939. After preparing at the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey, he received three degrees from Yale, a BA (1960), an MA (1962), and a PhD (1966), all in English. He has also studied and taught in Germany and Indonesia. After a career as a college English teacher, academic dean, and academic vice president, he became an independent consultant, working as a foundation evaluator, nonprofit administrator and planner, university consultant, and fundraiser. Counting his doctoral dissertation on the fiction of the American novelist Henry James and Terranautics 101, he has now written and published 10 books. A widower with two grown daughters, he is married to Cedar Barstow, a psychotherapist, ethics trainer, and author, and lives with her in Boulder, Colorado. Besides working on the Terranautics Project, which he considers his primary legacy, he tutors students and edits doctoral dissertations and professional manuscripts. An internationalist, Ren has studied 12 languages and can get along in six. For more about him, you can see his personal website: www.reynoldruslan.com.