James Carroll
Born: 1943 in Chicago, Illinois
Connection to Illinois: Carroll was born in Chicago. Biography: James Carroll was raised in Washington, D.C., and ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1969. He served as a chaplain at Boston University from 1969 to 1974, then left the priesthood to become a writer. A distinguishedscholar-in-residence at Suffolk University, he is a columnist for the Boston Globe and a regular contributor to the Daily Beast.
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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Carroll_(author)
Selected Titles
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A 20th century anthology : ISBN: 0139349448 OCLC: 13350864 |
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City below. ISBN: 0395825229 OCLC: 231145300 Houghton Mifflin, Boston : 1996. |
| Madonna red / ISBN: 0316130079 OCLC: 2020573 Little, Brown, Boston : ©1976. |
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Memorial Bridge / ISBN: 0804112746 OCLC: 32607964 Ivy Books, New York, NY : 1995. |
| Practicing Catholic / ISBN: 0547336268 OCLC: 619593530 Mariner Books, Boston, Mass. : 2010. A memoir in which the author discusses his early life as a Catholic which led him to the priesthood in 1968, the positions of the Church that caused him to leave, and the reasons why he continues in the faith while at the same time disagreeing with its stand on moral issues. |
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Secret father / ISBN: 061848535x OCLC: 785780454 Houghton Mifflin, Boston : 2003. Secret Father is a suspenseful drama of family and politics set in Cold War Berlin. Missed signals, cloaked motives, false postures, and panicked responses echo tragically across borders and generations when, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a father and son recount the tense events of nearly thirty years before. In 1961, just before the Wall rises, three teenagers from an American school in West Germany travel to the Communist side of the divided city to join a rally. Unknown to them, their parents have unfinished business reaching back to World War II which will pull the teens into the vortex of an international incident. |