Tags: Philosopher.
Eric Linn Ormsby born in Atlanta in 1941 is a poet a scholar and a man of letters. He was a longtime resident of Montreal where he was the Director of University Libraries and subsequently a professor of Islamic thought at McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies. Presently he lives and writes in London England where he is Professor and Chief librarian at the Institute of Ismaili Studies. Ormsby began writing poetry as a young man and began publishing in 1985.