How to Have a Life: An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely - Seneca

James S. Romm is an author, a book reviewer, and the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College. He is the editor and translator of Seneca's How to Give, How to Keep Your Cool , and How to Die (all Princeton), and the author of Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero . His reviews and essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal , the London Review of Books , the Daily Beast , and other publications. He lives in Barrytown, New York.