Jonathan Young

Jonathan Young born September 29 1944 is a psychologist who became the founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives Young developed an interest in the teaching functions of stories through early exposure to folklore He was one of six children in a muchtraveled family His parents read and discussed the lore of each place they visited such as the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen the Pied Piper in Hamelin the Arabian Nights in Baghdad and the Buddha in India and Japan