AUTHORS & TITLES

Adam Barsouk, M.D.’s medical journey began at a young age, when in the 2010’s he acted as his Ukrainian grandparents’ translator at the cancer clinic in Pittsburgh where they both received treatment for rare blood cancers which were, in all likelihood, due to exposure to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.  After they passed, Adam knew he wanted to continue to change lives through medicine, and he started volunteering with cancer patients and in cancer research labs at the University of Pittsburgh.  Working with patients, he got to translate not just Russian or Spanish, but also the complex science of oncology to ordinary people in need.  He became their advocate, and he continued that advocacy by publishing articles in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Newsweek, the DailyMail, and more, and through numerous appearances on television to talk about healthcare and policy.  He went on to graduate summa cum laude from the accelerated undergraduate medical program at Penn State University, and top of his class from Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.  He is currently a resident physician in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he rotates in the oncology ward and clinic.

Dr. Carolyn Baugh holds both a Master's (2008) and a Doctorate (2011) from the University of Pennsylvania in Arabic and Islamic Studies. She is an Assistant Professor of History at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses in Middle East and world history and also directs the Women's Studies Program. Her graduate research focused on minor marriage in early Islamic law, while her translation work includes the Sufi treatise of the celebrated 14th century jurist and scholar Ibn Khaldun. Dr. Baugh co-directs the Erie Voices refugee oral history project geared at collecting the stories of Erie's diverse refugee community for purposes of increasing tolerance and understanding between cultures. She is faculty advisor for Students United against Human Trafficking and the Muslim Students Association. She is a failed concert pianist, a psychotic soccer mom to two indomitable girls, and the only one in the house who feeds Oreo the Cat.

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Golf Digest Senior Writer Joel Beall covers professional golf with a focus on longform storytelling, columns, news, investigations and in-tournament coverage. He also shepherds the monthly Undercover Caddie column and has contributed to the “Normal Sport” book series. He has won multiple honors from the Golf Writers Association of America and his piece on golf and autism was named one of 2021’s best features by the Athletic. He's previously worked for FOX Sports, the Cincinnati Enquirer and WhatIfSports.com. Beall was born in Ohio but calls Connecticut home, where he lives with his wife, dog and broken short game.

Jason Bell, Ph.D. is a professor of philosophy at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. He has served as Fulbright Professor in Germany (at Göttingen, Winthrop Bell’s alma mater), and has taught at universities in Belgium, the United States, and Canada. He was the first scholar granted exclusive access to Winthrop Pickard Bell’s classified espionage papers.

Sara Jane Boyers is a Los Angeles-based writer/editor and exhibiting fine art photographer. Her youth focus has been on books about contemporary art and poetry, critical thinking, and political activism, starting with her award-winning book LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME, in which she married the expressive artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat to a stirring l978 poem of Dr. Maya Angelou, and which has been hailed as a "contemporary classic."

Roni Cohen-Sandler, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, nationally recognized author, and educator whose various professional roles enhance her ability to help teens, adults, and families. She has written three parenting books, the best-selling, I’m Not Mad, I Just Hate You!, the revised and updated Trust Me—Mom, A Less Stressful Approach to Mothering Teenage Daughters, and Easing Their Stress: Helping Our Girls Thrive in the Age of Pressure. She gives lectures, workshops, and keynote addresses throughout the U.S. and abroad, and frequently appears as an expert on parenting, raising teenagers, and family relationships for national television, radio, magazines, and newspapers. Through her travels, Roni Cohen-Sandler stays current with cultural trends, the most prevalent challenges teens face today, and their parents’ greatest worries and questions. What she learns about the latest technology, online practices, and teenage behavior further enriches her clinical work.

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Dennard Dayle is a Jamaican American author who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of Princeton University and received his MFA from Columbia University. His short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Clarkesworld, Matchbook, the Hard Times, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Before taking up fiction and mischief as a full-time job, he was an advertising copywriter who dangerously flirted with stand-up comedy. He teaches as an adjunct at Columbia, writes weekly humor at 1-900-HOT-DOG, and recently made the rash decision to take up skateboarding.

Praise for How to Dodge a Cannonball

“Dennard Dayle’s second book certifies his talent. I can’t think of a wittier, more hilarious or more relevant young writer. How to Dodge a Cannonball is the great Civil War novel I didn’t know I needed, but now it is never leaving my shelf.”
―Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Our Country Friends and Super Sad True Love Story

“This is the Civil War send-up the American canon has been waiting for, and which today’s America, still unsure which version of itself it wants to become, so sorely needs. Dayle is one of our sharpest, funniest, and most unrelenting writers.”
―Jessi Jezewska Stevens, author of The Visitors and The Exhibition of Persephone Q

“A sharp and chaotic skewering of everything America believes about itself, told from the point of view of a young man bumbling his way through the horrors of the Civil War. Full of absurdity and humanity in equal measure, Dayle treats warfare with all the reverence and respect it deserves, which is none.”
―Jason Pargin, New York Times bestselling author of I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom and If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe

“Dennard Dayle is an electrifying new voice, savagely funny and scarily smart.”
―Susan Choi, author of Trust Exercise and My Education

“I realized what How to Dodge a Cannonball was trying to do a few chapters in, and I scoffed at Dennard Dayle’s hubris. Everyone thinks they can write Catch-22 until they try to write Catch-22. It’s like saying you want to fistfight the sun. I respect the audacity, I just don’t think you can get up there. Here’s the crazy thing: Dayle might have done it. How to Dodge a Cannonball is Catch-22 about the Civil War, complete with all the lighthearted racial commentary you’re worried about. It’s funny, fast, insightful, it has a weird amount of heart, and it’s so dense with jokes you’ll be re-reading it for years and still be catching new ones.”
―Robert Brockway, author of Carrier Wave and The Empty Ones

“I had no idea that writing this playful, this prescient, this radiant, this anansi could exist. If you want a glimpse at the future of literature look no further than Dennard Dayle. Books this good come around once a generation if we’re lucky and with Everything Abridged we are very lucky indeed.”

– Junot Diaz, New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Slyly defiant and blazingly imaginative, like the best modernist literature, Everything Abridged is a powerful celebration of flaw and failure. It’s a book that revels in the timelessness of obsolescence and the freedom of powerlessness. Dayle’s a genre-shattering writer, whose wit and intellect never cease to entertain. This refreshingly original and powerfully funny collection is a debut to remember.”

– Paul Beatty, New York Times bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout

“Everything Abridged: Stories by Dennard Dayle:

1. Miscategorized. Calling this addictively book-shaped act of language subversion ‘stories’ is like calling New York City ‘buildings’

2. The nonstandard reference to all sorts of things it would have been disturbing to learn if you hadn’t been laughing so hard

3. Herald of a major new talent–what more do you need to know? Why aren’t you reading it yet?”

   – Susan Choi, National Book Award-winning author of Trust Exercise

“With Everything Abridged, Dennard Dayle innovates form as much as he does content, creating a work that is funny and familiar, no matter if he’s writing about comedians from Mars, battery-powered humans, or radicalized comic book writers. Combining wit, humor, and an uncanny ability to get to the heart of what can both plague and save us, Dayle is a writer who isn’t ruffling feathers, but plucking the bird bare, and I am grateful as hell for it. Without a doubt one of the best collections I’ve ever read.”

– Mateo Askaripour, New York Times bestselling author of Black Buck

“This is one of the most useful books on the current American berzerk that I have read in a long time. Kudos, Dennard. You said what we were all trying to say while we were very (angrily) chewing on our kale salads.”

– Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story

“Funnier and smarter than pretty much everything else you’ve read in your lifetime.”

– Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances and Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

“Dayle has broken every rule to create a rollicking satire skewering American hypocrisy. A short story collection that artfully manages to be part dictionary and part joke book, Everything Abridged is a must-read for anyone who still believes humor is the fast track to truth.”

– Jessi Jezewska Stevens, author of The Exhibition of Persephone Q and The Visitors

David Edison was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and has spent most of his life living in New York City and California.  His passions include rescuing pit bulls, leveling up, and all things queer.

For over 35 years, Dr. Patti Feuereisen has been counseling sex abuse survivors as a psychologist in private practice in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y.  She is a strong feminist and is passionate about helping girls heal and change the culture around sex abuse. She trains staff who work with sex abuse survivors, speaks at colleges and high schools, runs workshops around the country, has book readings at alternative book stores, and is a speaker for Take Back The Night. In 2006, Dr. Patti founded Girlthrive Inc., the only organization to honor incest survivors through “thriverships”. A portion of the proceeds from Invisible Girls go directly to Girlthrive, and to date, Girlthrive has awarded hundreds of thriverships to girls all over the country.

Gabe Henry is a New York-based writer, editor, and former manager of the Brooklyn comedy venue Littlefield.

Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction writer, sustainability researcher, and futurist. He is the author of Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures, as well as over twenty-five short stories appearing in Slate Future Tense, Lightspeed Magazine, Escape Pod, Vice Terraform, MIT Technology Review, Grist, and many more. His nonfiction has appeared in Slate, Jacobin, and others. His fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, longlisted for the BSFA, and translated into Italian. In 2016 his story “Sunshine State” won the first Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest, and in 2017 he was runner up in the Kaleidoscope Writing The Future Contest. His 2015 essay “On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk” has helped define and grow the “solarpunk” subgenre. He is an active member of SFWA and attended the prestigious 2022 Clarion Workshop. Andrew has a master’s degree in sustainability from Arizona State University, where he is now pursuing an MFA in creative writing (fiction). He is also an Imaginary College Fellow at the ASU Center for Science and the Imagination. His research, partnering with institutions like Luleå University of Technology in Sweden, uses speculative fiction to explore the entwined social and technical dynamics of future scenarios, particularly the challenges and opportunities of decarbonization and climate repair. He often teaches, lectures, and advises on climate fiction and solarpunk, including serving as a story reviewer on Grist’s Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Contest and teaching an online craft class with Clarion West. He has been invited to speak at top conferences and venues, such as the Museum of the Future in Dubai, Re:Publica in Berlin, and C2MTL in Montreal. He has previously worked in journalism, political consulting, and healthcare innovation. He also teaches yoga. Follow his work via solarshades.club.

Jack Kelly is a public scholar, a historian and a novelist. His book VALCOUR was called “Historical writing at its best.” The New York Times referred to Kelly’s book The Edge of Anarchy as “timely and urgent.” His book Heaven’s Ditch is a rollicking account of the Erie Canal and the political and religious upheavals that erupted along its length. Band of Giants, winner of the DAR History Medal, is a pithy and insightful history of the Revolutionary war, and Gunpowder offers readers an account of the world’s first explosive substance, an invention that quite literally changed the world. The Baltimore Sun described Jack’s writing as “brilliantly succinct and excruciatingly powerful.” The Wall Street Journal wrote that he “packs in a remarkable amount of information, thanks to his lean, readable prose.” A New York Foundation for the Arts fellow, Jack has appeared on NPR, PBS, and The History Channel. He has written for national publications including the Wall Street Journal and American Heritage. Born in Western New York, Jack now lives and works in the Hudson Valley.

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Mary Pat Kelly is the best selling author of Galway Bay, the first in a trilogy of Irish American historical fiction that includes Of Irish Blood and Irish Above All. She has published another novel, Special Intentions, as well as five nonfiction books. She wrote and directed the critically acclaimed feature film, Proud, starring Stephen Rea and Ossie Davis as well as a series of award-winning documentaries for PBS. She worked on the television shows Good Morning, America and Saturday Night Live and was a screenwriter for both Paramount and Columbia Pictures. Irish America magazine twice named her one of the top 100 Irish Americans as well as one of the top global Irish and placed her in the inaugural class of the top 50 Power Women. She graduated from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, attended NYU Film School, and received a PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center. Born and raised in Chicago, she lives on New York’s Upper West Side with her husband, web developer Martin Sheerin, from County Tyrone.

Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions. Called "the restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes magazine, he was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison." PBS selected him as one of the "sixteen revolutionaries who made America." Ray was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Among Ray’s many honors, he received a Grammy Award for outstanding achievements in music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, holds twenty-one honorary Doctorates, and honors from three U.S. presidents. Ray has written six national best-selling books, including New York Times best sellers The Singularity Is Nearer (2024), The Singularity Is Near (2005), and How To Create A Mind (2012). He is Co-Founder and Chancellor of Singularity University and a Director of Engineering at Google heading up a team developing machine intelligence and natural language understanding.

Nicholas Ayars “Nick” Lore is a social scientist specializing in career design methodology and multiple intelligences, author, and the founder of the Rockport Institute. His methodology includes a system of step-by-step inquiry during which people achieve certainty about their unique expression of those key elements. This methodology also includes a suite of tools and inquiries to deal with the doubts, fears and uncertainties that arise. A central concept of his work states that too many people concentrate their career goals on extrinsic rewards such as high salary and prestige and unnecessarily sacrifice intrinsic values such as job satisfaction. He asserts that a well-chosen career will provide both. Lore founded the Rockport Institute in 1981. The Rockport Institute performs testing on clients to identify personality traits, personal values and talents, from which customized career suggestions are then based upon. His Rockport career design methodology asserts that traditional prescriptive career counseling, in which a client takes a personality and interest test, and is then supplied with a list of suitable jobs leaves out many factors crucial to career success and fulfillment. His answer was to develop "career design coaching," later called simply "career coaching.”

Monica S. Rose worked alongside Nick Lore for 12 years, running Rockport Institute, developing programs, and coaching clients. Monica has an additional fifteen years of professional experience in both the profit and not-for-profit world. In addition to Career Coaching, she coached and helped produce leadership programs for a global adult education company for over 10 years and worked as the Content Expert designing and writing an online career planning program called Future Plans, now part of the state of Florida’s Public High Schools’ curricula. Well over 100,000 students have gone through that program.

Peter Lovenheim is an author and journalist whose articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Parade, Moment magazine, The Washington Post, and other publications.

His book In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time, won a Barnes & Noble Discover Award and the First Annual Zócalo Public Square Book Prize.

Lovenheim holds a degree in journalism from Boston University and in law from Cornell Law School. He teaches narrative non-fiction at The Writers Center in Bethesda, MD and splits his time between his hometown of Rochester, NY, and Washington, DC.

Brian J. Morra is a former U.S. intelligence officer and a retired senior aerospace executive. He helped lead the American intelligence team in Japan that uncovered the true story behind the Soviet Union's shootdown of Korean Airlines flight 007 in September 1983. He also served on the Air Staff at the Pentagon while on active duty. As an aerospace executive, he worked on many important national security programs. Mr. Morra earned a BA from William and Mary, an MPA from the University of Oklahoma, an MA in National Security Studies from Georgetown University, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

From the west of Ireland but now living in New York, Seamus Mullarkey spends much of his time scouring vintage newspaper articles, leafing through dusty old books, and scrutinizing scholarly databases. Seamus is obsessed with overlooked stories, forgotten aspects of world events, and quirky trivia. He is fascinated by the kind of history that you definitely didn’t learn in school. Teachers told him to “only answer what you’re asked” and “don’t go off on tangents,” but now he delights in writing about whatever he wants, and it’s his pleasure to take his readers on that journey with him.

With over a million copies sold, Mark Nepo has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called "one of the finest spiritual guides of our time," "a consummate storyteller," and "an eloquent spiritual teacher." His work is widely accessible and used by many, and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He has received Life Achievement Awards from AgeNation (2015) and OMTimes (2023).  In 2016, he was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People, and was also chosen as one of OWN's SuperSoul 100, a group of inspired leaders using their gifts and voices to elevate humanity. In 2017, Mark became a regular columnist for Spirituality & Health Magazine, and Mark was part of Oprah Winfrey's The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV.  He has also been interviewed by Robin Roberts on Good Morning America.  His book The Exquisite Risk was listed by Spirituality & Practice as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2005, calling it "one of the best books we've ever read on what it takes to live an authentic life", and Seven Thousand Ways to Listen won the 2012 Books for a Better Life Award. Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship.  He continues to offer readings, lectures, and retreats. You can visit Mark at threeintentions.com and harrywalker.com.

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Michael Okon is an award-winning and best-selling author of multiple genres including paranormal, thriller, horror, action/adventure and self-help. He graduated from Long Island University with a degree in English, and then later received his MBA in business and finance. Coming from a family of writers, he has storytelling in his DNA. Michael has been writing from as far back as he can remember, his inspiration being his love for films and their impact on his life. From the time he saw the film The Goonies, he was hooked on the idea of entertaining people through unforgettable characters. Michael is a lifelong movie buff, a music playlist aficionado, and a sucker for self-help books. He lives on the North Shore of Long Island with his wife and children.

James Pawelski, Ph.D., is Professor of Practice and Director of Education in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania where he co-founded the Master of Applied Positive Psychology Program with Martin Seligman.  The Founding Executive Director of IPPA, he is currently leading a three-year, multi-million-dollar grant investigating connections between the science of well-being and the arts and humanities. An international keynote speaker, he has presented in more than 20 countries on 6 continents, including “Romance and Research” (TM) workshops with his wife Suzie Pileggi, M.A.P.P. He is frequently featured in the media, including the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, and Philadelphia.

Suzann “Suzie” Pileggi, M.A.P.P. has a Master of Applied Positive Psychology degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a freelance writer and well-being consultant specializing in the science of happiness and its effects on relationships and health. Her 2010 Scientific American Mind cover story, “The Happy Couple,” was the catalyst for HAPPY TOGETHER. Suzie blogs for Psychology Today and writes the “Science of Well-being” column for Live Happy, where she is also a contributing editor.  She has given “Romance and Research” (TM) workshops around the world with her husband James Pawelski, Ph.D. Previously, she directed award-winning media relations campaigns for Fortune 500 clients, worked in publicity at Radio City Music Hall and was an associate producer for HBO Downtown Productions and The Joan Rivers Show.

BUILDING LOVE THAT LASTS

A 12-Part/6-Hour Online Course Based on the Authors’ Book HAPPY TOGETHER

(Wondrium 2022)

Have you ever been in love?

Falling in love is one of the easiest things in the world. The difficult part often comes later, when you're trying to stay in love. It has been estimated that nearly half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce. As it turns out, failing in love is just as easy as falling in love.

With so many stories of "happily ever after" inundating our culture, many of us have accepted the idea—from a very young age—that our primary goal in life is to find our perfect partner or soulmate, with our very own fairy-tale ending guaranteed to follow.

The value we place on idealized lifelong relationships permeates our society and creates expectations that a good start is all we need for a fulfilling relationship. But think about it: In other important life ventures such as our career or health and fitness, we understand that to succeed, we must continue to put in the time and effort over the long term. We seek further education, find mentors and trainers, and buy gym memberships. Why do we think that building a lasting, loving relationship is any different?

In Building Love That Lasts, you will access a treasure trove of secrets to sustaining healthy relationships in 12 inspirational lessons led by a married couple who specialize in positive psychology. Suzann Pileggi Pawelski is a writer, consultant, and positive psychology expert. Her husband, Professor James Pawelski, is the cofounder and director of the world's first degree program in positive psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. And while their focus is on romantic relationships, the research Suzie and James share is applicable to relationships of all kinds—including with family, friends, and work colleagues.

Theresa Rebeck is a prolific and widely produced playwright, whose work can be seen and read throughout the United States and abroad. She’s had four plays premier on Broadway, making Rebeck the most Broadway-produced female playwright of our time. Major film and television projects include Trouble, starring Anjelica Huston, Bill Pullman and David Morse (writer and director), “NYPD Blue,” the NBC series “Smash” (creator), and the female spy thriller 355 (for Jessica Chastain’s production company). As a novelist, Rebeck’s books include Three Girls and Their Brother, Twelve Rooms with a View, and I'm Glad About You. Rebeck is the recipient of the William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award, a Lilly Award, and more.

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Zachary C. Solomon spent six years as an adjunct professor of creative writing, film, and composition at Brooklyn College and Baruch College. He earned his MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College in 2015, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow, and where he studied with Julie Orringer, Dinaw Mengestu, Joshua Henkin, Jonathan Dee, Helen Phillips, and Alice Mattison. He was a finalist for the 2021 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship for A BRUTAL DESIGN. His short fiction has appeared in New World Writing, Green Mountains Review, JewishFiction.net, Crack the Spine, and Foliate Oak.  He lives in the Hudson Valley of New York with his wife, the novelist Mandy Berman, and their daughter

Mariah Stewart’s nearly fifty novels in print have sold over 6,500,000 copies to date with 26 landing on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller lists.

The Wyndham Beach Series

The Hudson Sisters Series

The Chesapeake Diaries Series

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Melvin Urofky is a Professor of History Emeritus and Virginia Commonwealth University and has over the years lectured widely in America and overseas, the latter under the aegis of the State Department. He held a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of New South Wales Law School in Sydney, Australia and is the author of editor of more than 55 books, including the award-winning Louis D. Brandeis: A Life (2009), Dissent and the Supreme Court (2015), and most recently, The Affirmative Action Puzzle (2020).

George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals. He holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. From 1989 through June 1996, Mr. Weigel was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he led a wide-ranging, ecumenical and inter-religious program of research and publication on foreign and domestic policy issues. Mr. Weigel is perhaps best known for his widely translated and internationally acclaimed two-volume biography of Pope St. John Paul II: the New York Times bestseller, Witness to Hope (1999), and its sequel, The End and the Beginning (2010). In 2017, Weigel published a memoir of the experiences that led to his work as a papal biographer: Lessons in Hope — My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II. He is the author or editor of more than thirty other books, many of which have been translated into other languages. Among them are The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God (2005); Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church (2013); Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches (2013); Letters to a Young Catholic (2015); The Fragility of Order: Catholic Reflections on Turbulent Times (2018); The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission (2020); and Not Forgotten: Elegies for, and Reminiscences of, a Diverse Cast of Characters, Most of Them Admirable (2021). His essays, op-ed columns, and reviews appear regularly in major opinion journals and newspapers across the United States. A frequent guest on television and radio, he is also Senior Vatican Analyst for NBC News. His weekly column, “The Catholic Difference,” is syndicated to eighty-five newspapers and magazines in seven countries. Mr. Weigel received a B.A. from St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore and an M.A. from the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto. He is the recipient of nineteen honorary doctorates in fields including divinity, philosophy, law, and social science, and has been awarded the Papal Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, Poland’s Gloria Artis Gold Medal, and Lithuania’s Diplomacy Star.

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