John E. Mack (1929–2004) was an American psychiatrist and Harvard professor who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for his biography of T.E. Lawrence, A Prince of Our Disorder. For decades he was the respected head of Harvard’s Department of Psychiatry. In the early 1990s he began studying people who reported being abducted by aliens. Instead of calling them delusional, he treated their stories as real experiences that deserved serious investigation. His two books on the subject, Abduction (1994) an