An award-winning historian and teacher, Kevin M. Schultz was born in Los Angeles but lived in Nashville, Utah, Berkeley, San Jose, San Francisco, and Charlottesville, before settling in Chicago, where he now teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He has special interests in American intellectual and cultural life, and he mostly likes how ideas move around in the world, getting used and abused in all sorts of unpredictable ways. He has written for academic and popular audiences alike, including once having had an article of his appear immediately before that of the Pope. His most recent book, which was an Amazon #1 New Release in History, is Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship that Shaped the 1960s (W.W. Norton & Co.).