Gary Zukav is an American author who writes about human consciousness and spirituality. His first book, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, an overview of the new physics, won a U.S. National Book Award in 1979. Zukav later wrote The Seat of the Soul, a self-help book, and four of his books were consecutive New York Times Best Sellers. Beginning in 1998, he appeared more than 30 times on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss that book.