William B. Irvine is professor of philosophy at Wright State University. The author of seven books, including The Stoic Challenge and A Guide to the Good Life, he has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Salon, Time, and the BBC. He lives in Dayton, Ohio.
"Irvine is a warm and friendly Stoic, and one of the great guides
through the subject. His congenial writing offers strategies for
the anxiety-free, supple kind of sturdiness with which we should
all be greeting ourselves and the world." -- Derren Brown,
mentalist, illusionist, and author of Happy
"At this point, it's helpful to turn to philosophy, which can fill
the gap in tough times for people who are not religiously
inclined... Recent and helpful books include... William Irvine's
The Stoic Challenge; all draw on original materials such
as the Discourses of Epictetus and Meditations of
Marcus Aurelius. One of the simple but powerful threads
running through them is the need to separate what you can control
from what you can't control, and focus all your thoughts and
efforts on the former." -- Ceri Radford, What to read to stay sane
during the coronavirus pandemic - The Independent
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