James Geary

James Geary (born 1962) is an American writer, former Europe editor of Time[1][2] and deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.

Among his journalistic credits, apart from his work at Time, Geary was Editor at Large for Ode magazine[4] and writes online for The Huffington Post, Salon.com and the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc's Newsletter.

[5] Geary's literary efforts include Geary’s Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007), claimed to be the largest collection of aphorisms in the English language, and follows on from his previous volume on aphorists and aphorisms, The World in a Phrase (2006).

He also wrote a popular science book called The Body Electric (2002), a survey of cybernetic projects attempting to replace or enhance human biological senses (also published in Spain as El Cuerpo Electrónico),[6] and two much earlier books of poetry written while he was a student in San Francisco, 17 Reasons Why and Words for Refrigerator Doors.

He is a regular speaker at literary festivals[9] where he gives a largely unscripted lecture on aphorisms which includes his juggling routine.