Paul Elie

Paul Elie (born 1965) is an American writer and editor.

Paul Elie at the 2012 Texas Book Festival

Life and works

He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Fordham University and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University.

His book The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage was awarded the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2004, and received National Book Critics Circle Award nomination. He became an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1992 and worked there for over two decades. He is currently a fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University.[1]

He is a long-time contributor to the American Catholic journal Commonweal.

Don Brophy, managing editor for the Catholic book publisher Paulist Press, includes The Life You Save May Be Your Own in his 2007 book One Hundred Great Catholic Books from the Early Centuries to the Present.

Reinventing Bach was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in the Criticism category.[2]

He wrote the afterword for 13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty by Mario Marazziti, published by Seven Stories Press in March 2015.[3]

Works
  • A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writing on the Saints, editor, nonfiction (New York: Harcourt, 1994).
  • The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage, biography (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003).
  • Reinventing Bach, nonfiction (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012).

References
  1. University, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown. "Paul Elie". Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  2. John Williams (January 14, 2012). "National Book Critics Circle Names 2012 Award Finalists". The New York Times. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  3. "13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty | Seven Stories Press". Sevenstories.com. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
  • Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2004. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000155353.
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