Gladden Schrock is an actor, fiction writer, and playwright, originally from Indiana. He is the author of the plays "Glutt," "Taps," and "Madam Popov" and the novel "Letters from Alf," which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has most recently taught at Bennington College in Vermont and lives in South Bristol, Maine. His plays have been produced at the Guthrie Theatre, Yale Rep, and other venues across the country. He is the co-founder of the Long Wharf Acting Company and is also one of America's foremost speakers/op-ed writers on contemporary hysteria.