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''In brief'': {{Infobox_Contents |topic_name = Jack Miles is an author. Some of his books include |subtopics = Works - [[God: A Biography]] and , [[Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God]]|opinion_pieces = {{short_opinions}} |}}
----'''Jack Miles'''' work has appeared in numerous national publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times.
'''Works by Over a period of nearly 20 years (1975-95), Jack Miles'''* [[God: A Biography]]* [[Christ: A Crisis in was successively an editor at Doubleday, the executive editor at the University of California Press, the Life literary editor at the Los Angeles Times, and a member of God]]the Times editorial board, writing on politics and culture.
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Jack Miles is an author. Some of his books include [[God: A Biography]] and [[Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God]]
His first book, ''[[God: A Biography]]'', won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1996 and has been translated into sixteen languages.
His second book, '''Overviews'''* [[Jack Miles (overview)Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God]]'', was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2002. Since publishing it, Dr. Miles has been named a MacArthur Fellow for the period 2003-2007.
Born in [[Chicago]] in 1942, Jack Miles was a [[Jesuit]] seminarian from 1960 to 1970, studying at the [[Pontifical Gregorian University]] in [[Rome]] and the [[Hebrew University]] in [[Jerusalem]] before completing a doctorate in the department of Near Eastern Languages at Harvard. He is fluent in several languages.
Jack Miles has been a Mellon visiting professor of humanities at Caltech, the director of the Humanities Center at the [[Claremont Graduate University]], a Regents' Lecturer at the University of California, and a visiting fellow with the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the University of Chicago.
Currently senior advisor to the president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, a foundation supporting art and scholarship, Jack Miles lives in Southern California with his wife, Jacqueline, a psychologist. Their daughter, Kathleen is attending Berkeley. {{box | text=This text has been adapted from Miles'''biography on Jackmiles.com and has been uploaded with permission by the author and Jackmiles.com webmaster}} ==Quotes'''== ==Links==* [http://www.jackmiles.com/ JackMiles.com]* [Quotes about Jack Miles and his works]http://www.ericdavid.info Eric David]* {{returnto}} [[Quotes of Jack MilesAuthors]]
