Jack Miles

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John R. Miles (born July 30, 1942) is an American author. He is a winner of the

Commonweal Magazine.[4]

Miles treats his biblical subjects neither as transcendent deities nor historical figures, but as literary protagonists. His first book,

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]

Career

Born in

Aramaic.[12]

Over a period of more than 35 years (1975–2010), Miles has been an editor at Doubleday, the executive editor at the University of California Press, the literary (book review) editor at the Los Angeles Times, a member of the Times editorial board, and the Senior Adviser to the Getty Trust at the J. Paul Getty Museum.[13]

Miles most recently served on the faculty of the University of California, Irvine, Department of English, teaching religion.[14] Miles was the 2018-2019 Corcoran Visiting Chair in Christian-Jewish Relations at Boston College.[15]

Major works

  • God: A Biography. Vintage Books. 2 November 2014.
    ISBN 9780679743682
    .
  • Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 27 April 2011.
    ISBN 978-0-307-78910-5
    .
  • The Norton Anthology of World Religions. W.W. Norton & Company. 2 November 2014.
    ISBN 978-0393062533
    .
  • God in the Qur'an. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 13 November 2018.
    ISBN 9780307269577
    .
  • Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story. W.W. Norton & Company. 12 November 2019.
    ISBN 9781324002789
    .
  • A Friendship in Twilight: Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life. Columbia University Press. 5 July 2022.
    ISBN 9780231556248
    .

References

  1. ^ "Pulitzer Prize winner", pulitzer.org
  2. ^ "Guggenheim Fellow" gr.org
  3. ^ "MacArthur Fellows" macfound.org
  4. ^ "Jack Miles Bio", jackmiles.com
  5. ^ "Jack Miles Online God: A Biography page", jackmiles.com
  6. ^ "Jack Miles Online Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God page", jackmiles.com
  7. ^ "Norton Anthology of World Religions", wwnorton.com
  8. ^ "God in the Qur'an", penguinrandomhouse.com
  9. ^ "Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story", penguinrandomhouse.com
  10. ^ "A Friendship in Twilight: Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life", cup.columbia.edu
  11. ^ "Jack Miles" Archived 2010-06-18 at the Wayback Machine, upenn.edu
  12. ^ "Jack Miles Bio", jackmiles.com
  13. ^ "Jack Miles Bio", jackmiles.com
  14. ^ "Jack Miles", uci.edu
  15. ^ "Jack Miles Corcoran Chair Announcement" bc.edu

External links

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