James Carroll, “one of the most adept and versatile writers on the American scene today” (Denver Post), is the author of eleven novels and eight works of non-fiction, including Christ Actually:

The Son of God for the Secular Age (2104) Carroll was born in Chicago in 1943, and raised in Washington where his father, an Air Force general, served as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Carroll attended Georgetown University before entering the seminary to train for the Catholic priesthood.

He received BA and MA degrees from St. Paul’s College, the Paulist Fathers’ seminary in Washington, and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1969.

Carroll served as Catholic Chaplain at Boston University from 1969 to 1974, then left the priesthood to become a writer.

In 1974 Carroll was Playwright-in-Residence at the Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge, MA. In 1976 he published his first novel, Madonna Red, which was …