The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage
by Paul Elie
Category: Biography & Autobiography

The author explores the lives of Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Walker Percy, and Flannery O'Connor to search for evidence that their "Christ haunted" Catholic backgrounds inspired them to write, in a study of the spiritual and literary pilgrimage of these four great American Catholic writers. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.