Henry L. Roediger III is a cognitive psychologist. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1973 and began a career researching memory, teaching at several accredited American research universities. He became the principal investigator of a team of scientists awarded a grant in 2002 to research applications of learning and memory science. This project greatly influenced Make It Stick.

Roediger III’s area of expertise lies with retrieval—how humans remember and access learned information. He received many accolades and titles for his contributions to the larger field of cognitive psychology—some notable awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Howard C. Warren medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists. He also served as Chair of the Society of Experimental Psychologists as well as the Chair of the governing board of the Psychonomic Society, President of the Midwestern Psychological Association, and President of the Association for Psychological Science.

At the time of the book’s publication, Roediger III was the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a colleague of Mark A. McDaniel.