Paul Elie

Paul Elie (born 1965) is an American writer and editor.

His book The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage was awarded the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Winners in 2004, and received National Book Critics Circle Award nomination. Since 1993 he has been an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is also a long-time contributor to the Catholic journal Commonweal.

Born in New York, he holds a B.A. from Fordham University and an M.F.A. from Columbia University.

Don Brophy, managing editor for the Catholic book publisher Paulist Press, includes The Life You Save May Be Your Own in his 2007 book One Hundred Great Catholic Books from the Early Centuries to the Present.

Works

A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writing on the Saints, editor, nonfiction (New York: Harcourt, 1994)
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage, biography (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003)

Sources

Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2004. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000155353.

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