Paul Rosenblatt is emeritus professor of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota. He has published 14 books, including African American Grief (with Beverly R. Wallace); The Impact of Racism on African-American Families; Shared Obliviousness in Family Systems; Parent Grief: Narratives of Loss and Relationship; Help Your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child; Multiracial Couples (with Terri A. Karis and Richard Powell); and Grief and Mourning in Cross-Cultural Perspective (with R. Patricia Walsh and Douglas A. Jackson). His research projects have included a study of when and how couples who are courting through love letters have written about death, dying, and bereavement. He also is writing short stories to try to illuminate aspects of bereavement that might be missed or are hard to study in bereavement research.