Mary Catherine Bateson

Mary Catherine Bateson, the author of Composing a Life, is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is Clarence Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Bateson has written on a variety of linguistic and anthropological topics and is the author of Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition; Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way; and With a Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. She is coauthor of Thinking AIDS, and coauthor with her father, Gregory Bateson, of Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred.