Ram Dass is one of the most popular and richest Young Adult Author who was born on April 6, 1931 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He is an author, yogi and spiritual teacher, and his famous book, Be Here Now was published in 1971. He was also a philanthropist and established the Hanuman and Seva Foundations.
While both Leary and Dass were at Harvard University, he was a friend and colleague of Leary. Harvard fired Leary and Dass in 1963 because of their unconventional teaching methods.
He was the son a prominent Jewish lawyer. Dass was bisexual, and he learned in the late 1970s that his father, a Stanford University student named Karen Saum, had conceived a child almost three decades before him.
