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\section{About the Author}

\lettrine[lraise=0.15]{W}{illiam} Zeitler (``ZITE-ler'') is an author, composer, 
pianist, organist, and glass armonica performer.
He is the creator of GrailHeart.com:
stories and music at the threshold of myth and prayer.

As a glass armonica performer, he has performed at the Kennedy Center, 
and at the Hollywood Bowl with the Blue Man Group. 
He has also been a college mathematics instructor and a software engineer at Microsoft. 
He paid his own way through a degree at Cal-Arts by building harpsichords and restoring pianos.

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William did not come to the subject of Longing theoretically. 
He has been to the Underworld --- kicking and screaming --- more than once. 
What he found there, and what carried him through, is what this book is about.

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He lives in Southern California with his wife Sue and their cat Katie.

