About the Author

Ed Simon is a scholar, essayist, and cultural critic whose work explores the intersections of literature, religion, art, and history. He is Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Belt Magazine and The Pittsburgh Review of Books.
Simon is the author of more than a dozen books, including Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology, Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology, The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues: A Visual History, and Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain. His work is known for combining rigorous scholarship with accessible prose, bringing complex religious and cultural subjects to a broad readership.
His essays and criticism have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Paris Review Daily, LitHub, Poetry, McSweeney's, Aeon, The New Republic, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in English from Lehigh University and lives in Pittsburgh.

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