Eugene Exman (1 July 1900 – 10 October 1975) was a publisher and head of the religious books department for Harper & Row, where he worked with many prominent authors.
[1] Exman worked with and published authors such as Harry Emerson Fosdick, Dorothy Day, Howard Thurman, Albert Schweitzer, Martin Luther King Jr., Bill Wilson, Teilhard de Chardin, Paul Tillich, Karl Barth, Gerald Heard, Aldous Huxley, D.T.
[5] In addition to his work publishing, Exman's own spiritual search for meaning led him to travel to India several years before the Beatles made it popular, and to experiment with LSD before Timothy Leary’s acid evangelism.
He served as a trustee of Denison University, Wainwright House, and Sturgis Library, as well as president of the later; and was director of the Cape Cod Conservatory of Music and the Barnstable Civic Association.
[2][3][5] Prothero argues that Exman saw the personal connection to the divine as essential to religion, and in publishing books exploring this, he cleared the way for the "spiritual but not religious" identity claimed by more than a quarter of American adults today.