Walter Boughton Pitkin (February 6, 1878 – January 25, 1953) was an American author and university professor.
[1][2] Pitkin and his wife Mary Gray had five sons: Richard G., John G., David B., Robert B., and Walter.
[3] Pitkin authored more than 30 books over the course of his career,[2] including Life Begins at Forty (New York, Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill, 1932) and The Psychology of Happiness.
His A Short Introduction to the History of Human Stupidity was translated into fifteen languages.
Pitkin was a member of the New Realism school in philosophy, writing on its relation to biology.