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| − | '''Jack Miles'''' work has appeared in numerous national publications, including [[The Atlantic Monthly]], [[The New York Times]], [[The Boston Globe]], [[The Washington Post]], and [[The Los Angeles Times]]. | + | ''In brief'': Jack Miles is an author. Some of his books include [[God: A Biography]] and [[Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God]] |
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| − | His first book, ''God: A Biography'', won the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for Biography in [[1996]] and has been translated into sixteen languages.
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| − | His second book, ''Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God'', was named a New York Times Notable Book of [[2002]]. Since publishing it, Dr. Miles has been named a [[MacArthur Fellow]] for the period 2003-2007.
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| − | Born in [[Chicago]] in [[1942]], Jack Miles was a [[Jesuit]] seminarian from [[1960]] to [[1970]], studying at the [[Pontifical Gregorian University]] in [[Rome]] and the [[Hebrew University]] in [[Jerusalem]] before completing a doctorate in the department of Near Eastern Languages at [[Harvard]]. He is fluent in several languages.
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| − | Over a period of nearly 20 years (1975-95), Jack Miles was successively an editor at [[Doubleday]], the executive editor at the [[University of California Press]], the literary editor at the Los Angeles Times, and a member of the Times editorial board, writing on politics and culture.
| + | '''Overviews''' |
| | + | * [[Jack Miles (overview)]] |
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| − | Jack Miles has been a Mellon visiting professor of humanities at [[Caltech]], the director of the Humanities Center at the [[Claremont Graduate University]], a Regents' Lecturer at the [[University of California]], and a visiting fellow with the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the [[University of Chicago]].
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| − | Currently senior advisor to the president of the [[J. Paul Getty Trust]], a foundation supporting art and scholarship, Jack Miles lives in Southern California with his wife, Jacqueline, a psychologist. Their daughter, Kathleen is attending Berkeley.
| + | '''Works by Jack Miles''' |
| | + | * [[God: A Biography]] |
| | + | * [[Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God]] |
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| − | BIOGRAPHY USED WITH PERMISSION BY THE AUTHOR & JACKMILES.COM WEBMASTER
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| − | [http://www.jackmiles.com/ JackMiles.com] - [http://www.ericdavid.info Eric David] | + | '''Quotes''' |
| | + | * [[Quotes about Jack Miles and his works]] |
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