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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.
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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.
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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.
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| − | BIOGRAPHY USED WITH PERMISSION BY THE AUTHOR & JACKMILES.COM WEBMASTER
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| − | '''External links'''
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| − | [http://www.jackmiles.com/ JackMiles.com]
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| − | [http://www.ericdavid.info Eric David]
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| − | Go to [[Jack miles]] contents page
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