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National Book Award Winner, NYT Bestselling Author, Historian & Former Catholic Chaplain

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James Carroll Biography

James Carroll was born in Chicago in 1943, and raised in Washington where his father, an Air Force general, served as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Carroll attended Georgetown University before entering the seminary to train for the Catholic priesthood. He received his BA and MA degrees at St. Paul's College, the Paulist Fathers' seminary in Washington. In 1965 he studied poetry with Allan Tate at the University of Minnesota. He was a civil rights worker and community organizer in Washington and New York. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1969.

Carroll served as Catholic Chaplain at Boston University from 1969 to 1974. He studied poetry with George Starbuck, and eventually published a book of poems. Carroll left the priesthood to become a writer. In 1974 he was Playwright-in-Residence at the Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge, MA. In 1976 he published his first novel, "Madonna Red." It was translated into seven languages. Since then he has published several novels, including the "New York Times" bestsellers "Mortal Friends" (1978), "Family Trade" (1982), "Prince of Peace" (1984), and "The City Below" which was a "New York Times" Notable Book of 1994. His essays and articles have appeared in "The New Yorker," and other publications. His op-ed column runs weekly in the "Boston Globe." His memoir "An American Requiem: God, My Father, And The War That Came Between Us" received the 1996 National Book Award in nonfiction and other awards. His book, "Constantine's Sword, the Church and the Jews: A History," published in January, 2001, is a "New York Times" bestseller and was named a Notable Book of the year by the "New York Times," and one of the five best non-fiction books of 2001 by "The Christian Science Monitor." His recent works include “House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power,” which received the first PEN-John Kenneth Galbraith award.

"Constantine's Sword" has been the occasion of interfaith dialogues and conversations at synagogues, churches, and universities across the United States and in Canada. It was the subject of symposia at Harvard University, the proceedings of which were published in the Harvard Divinity School Bulletin; at Brandeis University, the proceedings of which were published as a collection of essays entitled "Catholics, Jews and the Prism of Conscience."

Carroll lectures widely on Jewish-Christian reconciliation, and on the question of war and peace. He is a regular participant in on-going Jewish-Christian-Muslim encounters at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and he is a member of the Advisory Board of Open House, a West Bank project working toward Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation. Carroll is a member and former Chair of the Council of PEN-New England. He has been a Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at the Harvard Divinity School. He continues to hold associate appointments at the Kennedy School and at the Harvard Divinity School. He is a Trustee of the Boston Public Library, a member of the Advisory Board of the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life at Brandeis University, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences where he also serves as Chair of the Academy's Visiting Scholars Center. Carroll is actively working on a history of the Pentagon.

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James Carroll Speaking Topics

  • Contemporary Issues of War and Peace

  • Christian-Jewish Relations and History

James Carroll Videos

  • James Carroll: Christ Actually - Jesus in the 21st Century
    James Carroll: Christ Actually - Jesus in the 21st Century
  • James Carroll @ Harvard Book Store
    James Carroll @ Harvard Book Store
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James Carroll Books

  • Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World
    Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World
  • Practicing Catholic
    Practicing Catholic
  • House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
    House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
  • Secret Father: A Novel
    Secret Father: A Novel
  • Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History
    Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History
  • An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us
    An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us

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