Jeremy R. Lent was born in 1960 in London, England, where he grew up. He attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, where he attained his BA and MA in English Literature. He left England in 1981 to come to the United States, and married his wife, Molly, in 1983. He earned an MBA at the University of Chicago and spent the next fifteen years raising his family and pursuing a career in business, founding an online financial services company called NextCard.

Requiem of the Human Soul is Jeremy's first novel. Currently, he is working on a non-fiction book continuing some of the themes raised in the novel. Specifically, he is following up on Dr. Julius Schumacher's thesis of the "tyranny of the prefrontal cortex", identifying the stages of the prefrontal cortex's ever-increasing dominance in human history, from the beginnings of language to the emergence of agriculture, the development of Western dualism and the ensuing dominance of the scientific method. His current research is exploring whether other cultural traditions, such as traditional Chinese and Buddhist thought, can be combined with recent discoveries from complexity theory and cognitive science, to offer ways to bridge the chasm created in our society between scientific reductionism and spiritual meaning.

Jeremy currently lives with his wife in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Books by Jeremy R. Lent

Requiem of the Human Soul

by Jeremy R. Lent