Julius Fast b. 1919
An American author of both fiction and non-fiction, Julian
Fast helped to popularise the term body language and brought the subject to a
broad audience with his bestselling book Body Language, so well received it
spawned several sequels, including The Body Language of Sex, Power and
Aggression, Body Politics, The Body Book, and Talking Between the Lines:
How We Mean More Than We Say, which he co-wrote with his wife Barbara Sher.
Fast analysed the unconscious messages sent out by the human body, emphasising
the use of nonverbal communication as a way of finding out hidden things about
others. For many readers, it was Fast that introduced kinesics and the science
of decoding unconscious human behaviour to reveal our hidden thoughts.
Read Body Language (1970) Simon & Schuster Adult
Publishing Group.
