Chemist and playwright Carl Djerassi's résumé is as thrilling as anything he'll ever write. Among his credits are the invention of the birth control pill, the National Medals of both Science and Technology, novels, the creation of an artists' colony, and escape from the Nazis. Intimidated yet? His age and experience practically grant him the right to pour multiple strains of scholarship and streams of Shavian banter into the slightly misshapen... More >>>