Ralph F. Young

Ralph Young is a history professor at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has done extensive research in the history of protest movements, terrorist organizations, and Puritanism. He is the author of "Dissent in America: The Voices That Shaped a Nation." He has won several teaching awards at Temple and in 2009 led a Fulbright Seminar on dissent in America at Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, Scuola Dottorale in Scienze Politiche.

He also writes fiction and has published two thrillers: "Crossfire" (winner of Japan's Suntory Prize for Suspense Fiction) and "Double Exposure." Both novels draw heavily on his experience living in Germany where he taught Anglistik at Bremen University from 1974 to 1978. He is currently working on another novel--a fictionalized account of the Red Army Faktion and the momentous events of 1977, from Buback to Ponto to Schleyer to Mogadishu to Stammheim.