Frans de Waal

Frans de Waal‘s books include the New York Times bestseller Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Granta, 2016), Mama’s Last Hug (Granta, 2018), winner of the PEN award for non-fiction, and Different (Granta, 2019). Named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People, he was the emeritus C. H. Candler Professor of Psychology at Emory University and emeritus Distinguished Professor at the University of Utrecht. He died in 2024.