Peter Manseau

Peter Manseau (born November 15, 1974 ) is an American writer.

Life

Manseau, son of the Catholic priest William J. Manseau and Mary Doherty Manseau, a former nun, grew up in Boston and studied religion and literature at the University of Massachusetts Boston , he works and is doing his doctorate at Georgetown University . So far he has written a novel, a biographical work about his parents and a travel book on places of religious worship of holy rags and bones. Manseau is the co-founder of the online journal Killing the Buddha , a magazine about religion, and is the co-author of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible .

Manseau has received various US grants and literary prizes: the National Jewish Book Award , the Sophie Brody Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Jewish Literature, the Ribalow Prize for Fiction and, in 2012, a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts .

Fonts

• Songs for the butcher's daughter. a novel , New York: Free Press, 2008
  • Library of unfulfilled dreams , novel, transl. Kathrin Razum , Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 2009 ISBN 978-3-455-40200-1
• Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible (with Jeff Sharlet ), Free Press 2004, ISBN 0-7432-3276-3
• Vows: the story of a priest, a nun, and their son , New York: Free Press, 2005
• Rag and bone: a journey among the world's holy dead , New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2009
• Believer, beware: first-person dispatches from the margins of faith , (together with Jeff Sharlet), Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, 2009

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Manseau in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Manseau homepage
• Killing the Buddha