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  2. Frederick Buechner - Wikipedia

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    Carl Frederick Buechner (/ ˈ b iː k n ər / BEEK-nər; July 11, 1926 – August 15, 2022) was an American author, Presbyterian minister, preacher, and theologian. The author of thirty-nine published books, [ 1 ] his career spanned more than six decades and encompassed many different genres.

  3. A Long Day's Dying - Wikipedia

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    Carl Van Vechten, widely recognised as a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and also for his work as the literary executor of Gertrude Stein, stated himself ‘a great admirer of Frederick Buechner's A Long Day's Dying’, while also noting its impressiveness as a debut: ‘It is the book of a first novelist already arrived, most original, and ...

  4. Frederick Buechner bibliography - Wikipedia

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    Laughter in a Genevan Gown: The Works of Frederick Buechner 1970–1980. (1983) (ISBN 9780802819697) Marjorie Casebier McCoy. Frederick Buechner: Novelist and Theologian of the Lost and Found. (1988) (ISBN 9780060653293) Victoria S. Allen. Listening to Life: Psychology and Spirituality in the Writings of Frederick Buechner.

  5. The Sacred Journey - Wikipedia

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    The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days is an autobiography by author Frederick Buechner, the first of a four part series.Published in 1982, the work describes the author's life from his childhood up until his conversion to Christianity in 1953, at the age of twenty-seven.

  6. The Entrance to Porlock - Wikipedia

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    Buechner reflects on the themes that run through The Entrance to Porlock in his autobiographical work, Now and Then (1983). Concerning the title he chose for the novel, he writes that it is a 'reference to the visitor from Porlock who woke Coleridge out of the visionary trance of Kubla Khan.

  7. A Room Called Remember - Wikipedia

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    In the Preface to this collection, Buechner introduces it as a 'grab bag': a 'handful of sermons', essays, addresses, and articles. [1] Concerning the sermons, the author writes that they were written for and preached at a diverse set of venues, including the Harvard Memorial Church, the Pacific School of Religion, and his local Congregational Church at Rupert, Vermont. [1]

  8. The Wizard's Tide - Wikipedia

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    In his literary critical study, Reading Buechner, Jeffrey Munroe argues that '[b]ecause The Wizard's Tide is a fictionalised version of events during Buechner's childhood, a strong argument can be made that is should be classified as a memoir instead of a novel.' [5] Munroe points out that the characters in the story are simple replacements of the author and his relatives: 'Teddy' is Frederick ...

  9. The Faces of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    Buechner scholar Dale Brown writes that The Faces of Jesus represents the author’s "single foray into the coffee-table genre". [3] It is perhaps unsurprising, however, that Buechner would choose to take on the project, since incarnation, as Marjorie Casebier McCoy writes, "is an underlying theme in all Buechner’s work". [4]