Jeffrey Overstreet

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Jeffrey Overstreet
Born
Flag of the United States Portland, OR
Occupation Novelist, Movie Critic, Editor
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy,
Influences
Official website

Jeffrey Overstreet is a novelist and film reviewer who currently resides in Shoreline, Washington.

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Jeffrey Overstreet currently works as an editor at Seattle Pacific University. He also frequently reviews movies and his reviews are published in publications such as Paste, Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Christianity Today, Risen, and Seattle Pacific University's Response magazine [1]. His work has also been highlighted in TIME Magazine [2].

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[edit] Auralia's Colors

Overstreet's first work of fiction, Auralia's Colors, was published in late 2007 by WaterBrook Press, a division of Random House. The story follows a young, artistic girl named Auralia who is drawn into a kingdom where colors, creativity, and imagination have been banned. Overstreet has said that Auralia's Colors is about characters who are "struggling with questions about freedom, responsibility, power, faith, and art."[3]. He has said that it reminds him of what takes place when families, communities, schools, churches and societies fail to appreciate the artists in their midst[4].

The book is the first "strand" in The Auralia Thread. Cyndere's Midnight, the sequel to Auralia's Colors, is scheduled to be released in September 2008.

[edit] Through A Screen Darkly

Through A Screen Darkly was published by Regal Books in February 2007, and earned a "Starred Review" from Publisher's Weekly [5]. In the book, Overstreet shows how films from many different worldviews can offer pieces of a larger truth [6]

Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky has said of the book that it is "Inspirational.... Sometimes all of us forget that love for movies, that internal spark inside us that movies lit, and your book is going to remind many of us about it."[7]

The book is used as a textbook at Seattle Pacific University, Fuller Seminary, Bryan College, and other schools.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ About Jeffrey Overstreet
  2. ^ The Gospel According To Spider-Man - TIME
  3. ^ Grasping for the Wind
  4. ^ SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel | SCIFI.COM
  5. ^ Four Reviews Coming in Publishers Weekly on Monday, November 27 - 11/22/2006 - Publishers Weekly
  6. ^ Product: Through a Screen Darkly
  7. ^ "Through a Screen Darkly" - reviews and comments
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NAME Overstreet, Jeffrey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION American film critic
DATE OF BIRTH
PLACE OF BIRTH United States]
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH