The author of Guide to Kulchur is Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (1885 - 1972). He was a widely known and renowned intellectual and poet and a major member of the Modernist cultural and artistic movement in the early 20th century. He was an American expatriate, spending most of his professional life in Italy, including during World War II, where he infamously supported the Axis powers, particularly Mussolini.