Craig K. Comstock

When in college, Craig K. Comstock urged JFK to propose in his presidential campaign what became the Peace Corps, and in the 1980s he worked with an entrepreneur and philanthropist to support efforts to end the Cold War, including citizen diplomacy. Both of these initiatives involved social inventions. A graduate of Harvard College, the author worked as co-director of the William James Center in Berkeley, as a book creation coach, and as director of a foundation.

Recently he wrote The Gratitude Trilogy, consisting of "Gift of Darkness", about a friend who grew up under Nazi rule in occupied Amsterdam; "Enlarging Our Comfort Zones", a memoir of a decade, mainly about remarkable people whom he met and in some cases worked with; and now "Better Ways to Live", about social invention. These books are self-contained, united not by subject, but by an attitude.