Jack Miles

Jack Miles a MacArthur Fellow (2002-2007) and senior advisor to the president at the J. Paul Getty Trust, is a writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and many other publications. His book GOD: A Biography won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 and has been translated into 16 languages, including Hebrew and (twice) Chinese. A sequel to that book entitled CHRIST: A Crisis in the Life of God was published simultaneously in 2001 in the United States, Britain, Germany, and France. Dutch, Italian, Japanese, and Brazilian translations are in progress or in print. Over a period of nearly 20 years, Miles was successively an editor at Doubleday, executive editor at the University of California Press, literary editor at the Los Angeles Times, and finally a member of the Times Editorial Board, writing on politics and culture. He is Senior Fellow with the Pacific Council on International Policy, serves on the final selection committee of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and is general editor of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of World Religions. Miles has been Mellon Visiting Professor of Humanities at Caltech, director of the Humanities Center at the Claremont Graduate University, Regents Lecturer at the University of California, Visiting Fellow with the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science, University of Chicago, and is currently visiting fellow at Occidental College. He is fluent in several modern languages. Miles served as a member of the nonfiction jury for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize. In 1996, he chaired the jury for the Irish Times International Fiction award. He was the founding director and for seven years the jury chair of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards at the Claremont Graduate University. Miles is a past president of the National Book Critics Circle, and an advisory board member of PEN Center USA West. Born in Chicago in 1942, he spent the years 1960-1970 as a Jesuit seminarian, studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, 1964-1966, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1966-1967, before enrolling at Harvard University where he completed a Ph.D. in Near Eastern languages in 1971.

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