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A Writer’s Vocation

The Death of a Pope Author on Being a Catholic Novelist

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by Tim Drake, Register correspondent Friday, May 22, 2009 3:03 PM Comments (0)

Piers Paul Read is perhaps best known for his book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. But now his new novel, The Death of a Pope (Ignatius Press), has been making waves.

Read says he was baptized by the same priest who had given G.K. Chesterton the last rites. And that was just the beginning of a life of letters and faith.

The novelist, writer and playwright recently spoke with Register...

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