John E. Mack

John E. Mack won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for A Prince of Our Disorder, his biography of T. E. Lawrence, while building a career as head of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a leading researcher on adolescent psychology and teenage suicide. Later in life he turned his clinical attention to people who reported alien abduction experiences, treating their accounts as a subject worth serious psychological study rather than dismissing them outright — a turn that drew scrutiny from Harvard and divided his colleagues.