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A Catholic Way of Writing
From Alive to Death of a Pope: Piers Paul Read Discusses Life as a Catholic Novelist
BY TIM DRAKE
June 7-13, 2009 Issue |
Posted 5/29/09 at 11:59 AM
Last week’s “In
Person” introduced readers to Piers Paul Read, best known for his 1974
non-fiction work Alive: The Story of the Andes
Survivors.
Now he’s got a new drama hitting
bookstores, only it’s fiction: The Death of a Pope.
In Part II of the interview, Read discusses
his writing techniques and what it means to be a Catholic writer.
What led to your decision to
become a writer? How old were you when you made the decision to follow that
career path?
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