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Joseph Fitzgerald has authored or edited several books on diverse world religions and philosophy that have won more than ten awards, including the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award. The subjects include Buddhism, Hinduism, the American Indians, Christianity, the ecological crisis and the Perennial Philosophy. Fitzgerald studied Comparative Religion at Indiana University, where he also earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree. He is an adopted grandson of Thomas Yellowtail, one of the most honored American Indian spiritual leaders of the last century. For more than thirty years, Joseph has traveled extensively throughout the American Indian, Oriental and Islamic worlds. He has edited the following books for World Wisdom:

Spirit of the Indian Warrior, co-edited with Michael 0. Fitzgerald, 2019. Spirit of the Earth: Indian Voices on Nature, co-edited with Michael Fitzgerald, May 2017. World of the Teton Sioux Indians: Their Music, Life, and Culture, by Frances Densmore, September 2016. The Original Gospel of Ramakrishna: Based on M.’s English Text, Abridged, by Shri Ramakrishna, co-edited with Swami Abhedananda, 2011. The Wisdom of Ananda Coomaraswamy: Selected Reflections on Indian Art, Life, and Religion by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, co-edited with S. Durai Raja Singam (November 2011). An Illustrated Introduction to Taoism Of the Land and the Spirit: The Essential Lord Northbourne on Ecology and Religion

A Christian Woman's Secret: A Modern-Day Journey to God The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways, Edited and Illustrated The Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma: Life and Teaching of a 20th Century Indian Saint Honen the Buddhist Saint: Essential Writings and Official Biography The Way and the Mountain: Tibet, Buddhism, & Tradition

Swāmī Abhedānanda (1866-1939) was a direct disciple of Shrī Rāmakrishna. In 1897 he traveled to America to become the head of the Vedanta Society in New York. He stayed in America until 1921 teaching and lecturing. In addition to his work on The Gospel of Rāmakrishna, he was the author of several books on Indian philosophy and religion.

Dr. Alexander Lipski (1919-09), was Professor of History and Religious Studies from 1958 to 1984 at California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Lipski wrote several books on some major religious figures, Thomas Merton and Asia: His Quest for Utopia, Essays on Carmelite Saints, and Life and Teaching of Sri Anandamayi Ma. He also edited the collection Bengal: East and West. Dr. Lipski also wrote many essays on history and religion that were published in various journals. The text of his book on Sri Anandamayi Ma was incorporated into the illustrated book The Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma.

Shri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) was a famous Hindu saint of the late nineteenth century. He was renowned for his own detachment from material life, his dedication to Kali, his generosity towards his many disciples and students, and his many simple but profound spiritual teachings; Shri Ramakrishna's greatest renown, however, may be related to his unique facility to understand at a deeply personal level numerous spiritual paths beyond his own practice of Hinduism (e.g. a variety of Hindu paths, Buddhism, Chrisitianity, Islam, etc.). The remarkable story of his life and teachings is the subject of the book The Original Gospel of Rāmakrishna: Based on M.’s English Text, Abridged (World Wisdom, 2011), a new edition of a classic book on this great Hindu spiritual figure.