Imagination & spirit : a contemporary Quaker reader

by J. Brent Bill (Editor)

Other authorsRichard J. Foster (Author), James A. Michener (Author), Philip Gulley (Author), Jessamyn West (Author), Elizabeth Gray Vining (Author), Daisy Newman (Author), Irene Allen (Author), David Yount (Author), C. Michael Curtis (Foreword), Elton Trueblood (Author), Scott R. Sanders (Author) — 5 more, Thomas R. Kelly (Author), Douglas V. Steere (Author), Jan De Hartog (Author), Elfrida Vipont Foulds (Author), Thomas James Mullen (Author)
Paperback, 2002

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Available

Call number

Q BIL

Tags

anthology, 20th century Quakers, Douglas Steere, Elizabeth Gray Vining, D. Elton Trueblood, James Michener, Jessamyn West, Thomas Kelly, Daisy Newman, Jan de Hartog, Richard Foster, Scott Sanders, Irene Allen, Phil Gulley, Tom Mullen, David Yount, essays, fiction

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Your library, Q - Quakerism

Publication

Richmond, Ind. : Friends United Press, c2002.

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LibraryThing member brentbil
This collection is full of information and surprises. Did you know James Michener was a Quaker. Or that some of these pieces were made into movies? With an introduction to Quakers and writing and biographies of each featured author, the book features essays and fiction by the likes of Jessamyn
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 West, James Michener, Scott Russell Sanders, Richard Foster, Thomas Kelly, David Yount, Phil Gulley and more. C. Michael Curtis, senior editor of The Atlantic Monthly says it has, "Readings that offer both food for thought and surprise around every corner."
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Subjects

American prose literature
American prose literature Quaker authors
Quakers Fiction
Quakers United States
Quakers in literature

ISBN

9780944350614

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Q BIL

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