330 pages | 1st January, 1983 | Non-fiction | Religion
Paul Hendrickson shares of his experiences in seminary, discussing the forces that brought him to priesthood and those that drove him away.
For seven years, Paul Hendrickson diligently studied and prayed while he pursued his dream of becoming a missionary priest. But at twenty-one, he made the decision to leave the Seminary.
Now, eighteen years later, Hendrickson shares the details of his experiences studying for priesthood while assessing the significance of the period in his life in the pages of Seminary.
Playboy Best Nonfiction Work of the Year
Paul Hendrickson is a three-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a winner in 2003 for his book Sons of Mississippi. The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War was a 1996 finalist for the National Book Award. Hemingway’s Boat was a New York Times best seller and also a best seller in the UK. He has been the recipient of writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. Since 1998, he has been on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and for two decades before that, he was a staff writer at The Washington Post. He lives with his wife, Cecilia, a retired nurse, outside Philadelphia and in Washington, DC.
US: Summit Books