Bruce Feiler
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Bruce Feiler (born October 25, 1964) is a writer, on social issues and, particularly more recently, on religion. He tends to write in an accessible, conversational style, blending travelogue, interviews, autobiography, and personal musings with history and archaeology. He writes on religion from a progressive religious point of view. Some of his back catalog of books was republished in paperback after the particular commercial success he had with one of his books, Walking the Bible, in 2001. He also appeared as the host of a television version of Walking the Bible, which was shown on PBS.
Feiler is credited with first expressing the Feiler Faster Thesis that the increasing pace of society and journalists' ability to report it is matched by the public's desire for more information.
Feiler is a native of Savannah, Georgia, and now lives in New York City with his wife and children. His wife sometimes appears as a traveling companion in his books.
Feiler was the guest on the November 2, 2005 episode of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report.
[edit] Works
Feiler is the author of the following:
- Walking the Bible: A Photographic Journey (2005) (ISBN 0-06-079904-8)
- Where God Was Born : A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion (2005) (ISBN 0-06-057487-9)
- Walking the Bible (Children's Edition) : An Illustrated Journey for Kids Through the Greatest Stories Ever Told (2004) (ISBN 0-06-051119-2)
- Abraham : A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (2002) (ISBN 0-06-052509-6)
- Walking the Bible: A Journey on Land Through the Five Books of Moses (2001) (ISBN 0-380-80731-9)
- Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes, and the Changing Face of Nashville (1998) (ISBN 0-380-79470-5)
- Under the Big Top: A Season with the Circus (1995) (ISBN 0-06-052702-1)
- Looking for Class: Days and Nights at Oxford and Cambridge (1993) (ISBN 0-06-052703-X)
- Learning to Bow: An American Teacher in a Japanese School (1991) (Later published as "Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan") (ISBN 0-06-057720-7)
- In the Steps of St. Paul (1986) (with H. V. Morton) (ISBN 0-306-81112-X)
