Mark Lilla, licentiat in economie politica si stiinte economice la University of Michigan, a obtinut masteratul in politici publice si doctoratul in stiinte politice la Harvard. A predat la New York University, iar din 1999 este profesor de filosofie politica la University of Chicago; membru al Committee on Social Thought. De acelasi autor: The Public Face of Architecture: Civic Culture and Public Spaces (coordonator impreuna cu Nathan Glazer, Free Press, 1987), G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (Harvard University Press, 1993), New French Thought: Political Philosophy (coordonator, Princeton University Press, 1994), The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (coordonator impreuna cu Ronald Dworkin si Robert Silvers, New York Review Books, 2001).