Herbert Kohl is the author of more than forty books, including 36 Children, The Open Classroom, I Won’t Learn from You, and Stupidity and Tears. He coauthored two children’s books with his wife, Judith, one of which, A View from the Oak, won the National Book Award for children’s literature. He was the founder and first director of the Teachers’ and Writers’ Collaborative and established the Center for Teaching Excellence and Social Justice at the University of San Francisco. He was a senior fellow at the Open Society Institute, a part of the Soros Foundation Network, and currently he is writing, painting, and consulting at his home in Point Arena, California.