David Keyes

I once wrote a column about Keyes, who advises women to give shorter guys a chance. In his research, he found many tall women who say lovemaking is better and “more energetic” with shorter guys. One 6-foot-tall woman told Keyes: “Things are equal when you. re lying down. I don’t find tall men active enough. …

A lively and informative book. N.R. Kleinfield

Thorough and entertaining. Tom Ferrell

Mr. Keyes makes it clear that attitudes — ours and others’ — toward size is what is decisive, and decisively wrong. Discrimination against women, he conjectures, may actually be discrimination on the basis of size. … The Height of Your Life is an odd, breezy book, quick to record a joke, occasionally rueful, that gathers …

The book is full of fascinating anecdotes, facts, quotes, photos, cartoons and charts of the actual sizes of well-known people, measured against Mme. Tussaud’s famous was-work models. … The author provides us with considerable food for thought, along with endless material for cocktail-party conversation.

Keyes has done a spirited and thorough job in compiling facts and anecdotes about the physical, psychological, economic, and even sexual and political advantages and disadvantages of people of varying heights.