Ken Mondschein, when not decipering ancient manuscripts, roaming the globe with his swords on his back, or passed out in a puddle of absinthe, is a Ph.D candidate in history residing in New York City. As an over-educated and under-employed single guy in his mid-twenties, Ken began questioning where the hell our ideas of love, sex, and relationships come from in the first place. The result is A History of Single Life (see the URL below).

Ken first began writing professionally (and, alas, losing his hair) while still in his teens. Already well known to the cognoscenti of the Internet for his underground hit Web 'zine, corporatemofo.com, he pens a monthly column, which also sports the moniker A History of Single Life, for Nerve.com, and has written for the New York Press, Jewcy.com, McSweeneys, Disinformation, Renaissance and Mysteries magazines, and Billionaires for Bush, as well as for the Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America (contributing the article on "Sex Toys") and the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (scribing an article on "Meme" and co-authoring "Western Notions of Love" with Vern Bullough). In between teaching undergrads and shocking Jesuits at Fordham University, Ken is an avid equestrian and student of classical and historical fencing. He is also a vegetarian, loves his dog, has a second-degree black belt in karate, jousts in Renaissance faires, and looks damn good in a kilt.

He has never lied on Oprah, or any daytime TV show for that matter (even "A Dating Story").

Ken is represented by Charlotte Wasserstein of William Morris. Complete book proposals and manuscripts are available upon request.

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