Born in 1915, in St. Louis, Missouri, Ben Milder is the author of more than one thousand poems of light verse, written over the past forty-five years. In 1979, his book The Fine Art of Prescribing Glasses Without Making a Spectacle of Yourself won the American Medical Writers Association's Best New Book of the Year Award (sometimes called the "Pulitzer Prize for medical texts"). His light verse has been published in many magazines and journals, including the Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach Daily News, Milwaukee Sentinel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Light, Suburban Journal (St. Louis), Washington University Outlook, Pharos, The Critic, Long Island Night Life, LIGHT Quarterly, numerous medical journals, and the Journal of Irreproducible Results, as well as in the anthology The Best of Medical Humor (Hanley-Belfus, 1989). Milder has taught poetry workshops at Washington University (St. Louis) and at the Palm Beach Community College Institute of New Dimensions, as well as a light-verse discussion course, entitled "Ogden Nash is Alive and Well and Living in the Twentieth Century," at the Washington University Life-Long Learning Institute. Professor Emeritus of Clinical Ophthalmology at Washington University School of Medicine, Dr. Milder resides in St. Louis with his wife, Jeanne.