Becker, Ernest

US author and psychoanalyst

1924 - Born on the 27th of September in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Wrote "Zen: A Rational Critique" 1961, "The Birth and Death of Meaning: A Perspective in Psychiatry and Anthropology" 1962 (revised as "The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man" 1971), "The Revolution in Psychiatry: The New Understanding of Man" 1964, "Beyond Alienation: A Philosophy of Education for the Crisis of Democracy" 1967, "The Structure of Evil: An Essay on the Unification of the Science of Man" 1968, "Angel in Armor: A Post-Freudian Perspective on the Nature of Man" 1969, "The Lost Science of Man" 1971, "The Denial of Death" 1973 (Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction 1974), "Escape From Evil" 1975

1974 - Awarded of the Pulitzer Prize for his 1973 book, The Denial of Death.

         - Dr. Ernest Becker died on 6th of March.