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Howard F. Taylor was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hiram College and has a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University. He has taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, and Princeton University, where he is presently Professor of Sociology and former Director of the African American Studies Center. He has published over fifty articles in sociology, education, social psychology, and race relations. His books include The IQ Game (Rutgers University Press), a critique of hereditarian accounts of intelligence; Balance in Small Groups (Van Nostrand Reinhold), translated into Japanese; and the forthcoming Race and Class and the Bell Curve in America. He has appeared widely before college, radio, and TV audiences, including ABC's Nightline. He is past president of the Eastern Sociological Society, and a member of the American Sociological Association and the Sociological Research Association, an honorary society for distinguished research. He is a winner of the DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award, given by the American Sociological Association for distinguished research in race and ethnic relations, and the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He lives in Pennington, New Jersey, with his wife, a corporate lawyer.Howard F. Taylor is the author of 'Study Guide for Andersen/Taylor's Sociology: The Essentials, 5th', published 2008 under ISBN 9780495508083 and ISBN 049550808X.
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