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James Carroll (born January 22, 1943) is an American author, historian, journalist, and former Catholic priest. He has written extensively about the contemporary effort to reform the Catholic Church, and has published not only novels, but also books on religion and history.
James Carroll is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a founding member of Writers For Democratic Action, which began in 2020 as Writers Against Trump.
About James Carroll. Carroll was born in Chicago in 1943, and raised in Washington where his father, an Air Force general, served as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Carroll attended Georgetown University before entering the seminary to train for the Catholic priesthood.
James Carroll has 115 books on Goodreads with 28889 ratings. James Carroll’s most popular book is Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews.
Mar 8, 2018 · James Carroll is a scholar-in-residence at Suffolk University, columnist for the Boston Globe, and author of the bestselling Constantine’s Sword. He's the...
Oct 1, 1999 · James Carroll is the author of 20 books, including his memoir, An American Requiem, which won the National Book Award; Constantine’s Sword, a history of Christian anti-Semitism;...
James Carroll was born in Chicago and raised in Washington, D.C. He has been a civil rights worker, an antiwar activist, and a community organizer in Washington and New York. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1969 and served as Catholic chaplain at Boston University.
Apr 2, 2019 · Read James Carroll's bio and get latest news stories and articles. Connect with users and join the conversation at The New Yorker.
Apr 1, 2002 · In this “masterly history” (Time), National Book Award-winning author James Carroll maps the profoundly troubling two-thousand-year course of the Church’s battle against Judaism...
“As a novelist-historian of our times, James Carroll might be compared to the British novelist Doris Lessing - his work has her range and intensity…Carroll has become one of the writers who shape our sense of ourselves.” - Martin Green, The Atlantic. A New York Times Notable Book
