
William Cane is the pen name of Michael Christian, who taught English at Boston College for fifteen years, and who has been researching this topic "since a very early age." Author of The Book of Kisses and The Art of Hugging, he lives in New York City. Mr. Cane was educated at Boston College Law School and practiced law briefly in 1986. He also received a Master of Arts degree in English at Boston University, and he has written for Woman's Day, Seventeen, and other national and local newspapers and magazines. He has also written The Art of Hugging (St. Martin's Press, 1996), and The Art of Kissing Book of Questions and Answers (St. Martin's press, 1999) and is the producer of the popular instructional videos and DVDs HOW TO FRENCH KISS and HOW TO KISS, in both of which he makes a cameo appearance. He currently lectures on kissing at leading colleges and universities.