Peter Manseau
Peter Manseau is the author of the novel Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter, which won the 2008 National Jewish Book Award for fiction. He has also written two works of non-fiction: Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son and Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Relics. He is a founding editor of the online magazine, Killing the Buddha as well as the editor of Search: The Magazine of Science, Religion, and Culture. Manseau lives in Washington, D.C., and is a professor of writing at Georgetown University.
Speaker Links
Visit Peter Manseau’s website.
Listen to Scott Simon's interview with Manseau on NPR.
Read an excerpt from Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Relics.
Listen to the WordSmitten.com radio interview with Manseau.
Read an article by Manseau.
Watch Manseau talk about his life as a Catholic collector of Yiddish books.
Read the New Yorker’s interview with Manseau.