The author's style is intensely academic, resulting in a dense, well-referenced work requiring of the reader at least a modest familiarity with the related literature.
Vlad P. Glăveanu is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology and Counseling at Webster University Geneva, Associate Professor II at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology, University of Bergen, and Director of the Webster Center for Creativity and Innovation. His work focuses on creativity, imagination, culture, collaboration, and societal challenges. He edited the Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and
Culture (2016) and the Creativity Reader (2018), and co-edited the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity Across Domains (2017) and the Handbook of Imagination and Culture (2017). He co-edits the Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture Series and is editor of Europe's Journal of Psychology, an open-access peer-reviewed journal
published by PsychOpen (Germany). He received in 2018 the Berlyne Award from the American Psychological Association for outstanding early career contributions to the field of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts.