Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton, FRSL (; born 20 December 1969) is a Swiss-born British philosopher and author. His books discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. He published "Essays in Love" (1993), which went on to sell two million copies. Other bestsellers include "How Proust Can Change Your Life" (1997), "Status Anxiety" (2004) and "The Architecture of Happiness" (2006).
Joseph Bottum (author)
After returning to South Dakota, he produced his Kindle Single "Dakota Christmas", which reached #1 on the Amazon e-book bestseller list, and he published such print books as the examination of song lyrics as poetry in "The Second Spring" (2011), the childhood memoir "The Christmas Plains" (2012), and the sociological study of American religion in "An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America" (2014), together with the e-book collection of selected essays, "Pulp & Prejudice". His Kindle Singles for Amazon include sports Singles on Tim Tebow and R.A. Dickey ("The Summer of 43", named by Amazon to its Kindle Singles' list of 2012’s “10 Best Books of the Year”), and Bottum’s annual Christmas fiction.