STEPHEN A. GRANT is a lifetime student of G. I. Gurdjieff and former secretary and trustee of the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York. For forty years he has served as president of Triangle Editions, Inc., the publisher of Gurdjieff's books. He also was the editor of Jeanne de Salzmann's The Reality of Being and of Gurdjieff's In Search of Being. Mr. Grant graduated summa cum laude in history and literature from Yale University in 1960 and from Columbia University Law School in 1965, where he was editor in chief of the law review. He spent several years in Paris and Tokyo and practiced law in international financing and acquisitions until he retired in 2003.