Joseph Campbell

American mythologist, writer, and lecturer (1904–1987) · United States · Male · Born 1904-03-26 · Died 1987-10-30

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Joseph John Campbell was an American writer and the husband of Jean Erdman. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth. Wikipedia ↗