James Carroll

Author

James Carroll is the author of twelve novels, most recently The Cloister, which The New York Times called “incandescent,” and eight works of non-fiction, most recently Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age, which The Boston Globe  called, “At once stunningly original and strangely familiar, a testament to the power of a critical, creative faith.” Other books include the National Book Award winning An American Requiem; the New York Times bestselling Constantine’s Sword, now an acclaimed documentary; House of War, which won the first PEN-John Kenneth Galbraith Award; and Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which was named a 2011 Best Book by Publishers Weekly. Carroll is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and an Associate of The Mahindras Humanities Center at Harvard University. He lectures widely, both in the United States and abroad, and contributes occasional essays to NEWYORKER.COM . He lives in Boston with his wife, the writer Alexandra Marshall.