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Jack Miles is an American Catholic priest, writer, literary scholar, and university teacher. Born in Chicago in 1942, he is a member of the Society of Jesus within the Catholic Church. He has taught at the University of California, Irvine, and has written for The Atlantic. His writing is in English.
Miles has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the MacArthur Fellows Program award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. He was educated at Pontifical Gregorian University, Harvard University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Xavier University. His notable works include Gott im Koran, One God and Two Religions, God in de Koran, and Confessions. He is recognized in the Pulitzer Prize collection and the Macarthur Fellows collection.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 26
Top works
- Gott im Koran
- One God and Two Religions
- God
- God in de Koran
- Confessions
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jack
- Family name
- Miles
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Xavier University
- Employer
- University of California, Irvine
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Official website
- www.jackmiles.com
- Image
- Jack-miles-2016.jpg
- Religious order
- Society of Jesus
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- date of birth
- 1942-07-30
- Commons category
- Jack Miles
- pseudonym
- Jack
- has written for
- The Atlantic
- writing language
- English language
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Article · Italiano
Jack Miles (Chicago, 30 luglio 1942) è uno scrittore statunitense vincitore del premio Pulitzer per la biografia e autobiografia.Le sue opere su temi religiosi, politici e culturali sono apparsi in numerose pubblicazioni come il The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, ed il Los Angeles Times. Miles descrive i suoi soggetti biblici né come divinità onnipotenti né come figure storiche, ma come protagonisti di un'opera letteraria. Il suo primo libro, Dio: una biografia, vinse il premio Pulitzer per la biografia o autobiografia nel 1996 ed è stato tradotto in sedici lingue. La sua seconda creazione, Cristo: una crisi nella vita di Dio, venne candidato come miglior libro dell'anno (2002) da parte del New York Times.
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