Bruce Bawer

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Bruce Bawer, (born October 31, 1956 in New York City), is a gay American literary critic, writer, and poet. His works have appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, The American Spectator and The Hudson Review, among other places. He is also the author of several books, including A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society, "Prophets and Professors: Essays On the Lives and Work of Modern Poets," and Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity. His most recent book is While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within (ISBN 0-385-51472-7). It was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for 2006 in the criticism category.

In Place At the Table Bawer seemed to endorse the centrist philosophy of President Bill Clinton, and wrote that he was a liberal Democrat. In Stealing Jesus Bawer leveled extreme, not to say harsh, criticism at evangelical, Pentecostal, and other strains of modern Christianity, including premillennialism and evangelical apologism for capitalism.

In 1998, he moved from New York to Amsterdam, where he felt that he could live better as a gay man in a more liberal society.

He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he also taught courses in literature and composition. He currently lives with his partner in Oslo, Norway, having previously lived in the Netherlands.