The death of Harvard psychiatrist, psychoanalyst psychobiographer, researcher, and social activist John E. Mack came on September 28, 2004. Mack was crossing a darkened section of a street when was he was hit by a car driven by an individual who had consumed slightly over the legal alcohol limit for driving. The psychiatrist died shortly afterward without regaining consciousness. At the time he was attending a London conference on T.E. Lawrence, the subject of his most celebrated book. In a lengthy career, he won both academic and public acclaim for his Pulitzer Prize-winning psychobiography, A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence (1976), as well as many other accomplishments. Mack was also the recipient of intense academic criticism in the 1990s for his work on alien abductions. The failure of efforts to discredit his subject of research and his methods which would have endangered his position at Harvard, helped reaffirm academic freedom.
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