Paul Elie

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

His book The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage received a 2004 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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] Sources

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