John S. Hatcher is Emeritus Professor in English Literature at the University of South Florida and Editor
Emeritus of the Journal of Bahá’í Studies. He has published over twenty books—some of which have been translated into more than five different languages—and more than one hundred poems and articles. He has received various awards for his work, and his comparative study of theodicy The
Purpose of Physical Reality was reviewed in the prestigious Encyclopédie Philosophique Universelle Vol III, a dictionary of the world’s philosophical works published by the Presses Universitaires de France.