Jack Miles
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John R. Miles (born July 30, 1942) is an American author. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize,[1] a Guggenheim Fellowship[2] and the MacArthur Fellowship.[3] His writings on religion, politics, and culture have appeared in numerous national publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Commonweal Magazine.[4]
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Born | John Russiano Miles (1942-07-30) July 30, 1942 (age 82) Chicago, Illinois, US |
Pen name | Jack |
Occupation | Scholar |
Education | Xavier University; Pontifical Gregorian University; Hebrew University |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Genres | writer, editor |
Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship; Pulitzer Prize; MacArthur Fellowship. |
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Miles treats his biblical subjects neither as transcendent deities nor historical figures, but as literary protagonists. His first book, God: A Biography, won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1996, and has been translated into sixteen languages.[5] His second book Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2002.[6] Miles is general editor of the Norton Anthology of World Religions (November 2014).[7] Miles' book God in the Qur'an was published in 2018, the third in his God in Three Classic Scriptures series.[8] Miles' next related book is Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story, (Nov. 12, 2019) which examines when religion became a distinct area of thought.[9]
Miles' most recent book is co-written with Mark C. Taylor, and is titled A Friendship in Twilight: Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life, (July 5, 2022) a series of emails exchanged during the course of the pandemic in 2020.[10]