The Life You Save May Be Your Own Lib/E (Audiobook)

from kukulaj

This is a parallel biography of four twentieth century American Catholic writers, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy. I've read a bit of all except Day, but didn't know much about any of them. Elie does a good job of introducing them and situating them relative to eac...

from SeriousGrace

What do Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day and Walker Percy have in common? For starters, they are all authors who struggled not only with identity, but religious faith as well. It's this search for religious truth through writing that binds them together. They conducted their searches...

from nicholasjjordan

Lovely book about lovely (not at all to say perfect) human lives. It lengthened my books-to-read list by several titles too. I read most of it at about 10 pages a day as a devotional text, and that was great.

from jeterat

A great, enjoyable read covering four major American Catholic writers in the 20th century. Highly recommend to anyone interested in the faith.

from revslick

Paul Elie groups together the biographies of four famous Catholic writers - Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy. He has beautifully shown how they were shaped and help to shape the current culture as well as their particular style of writing about their faith. One simi...