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James Morrow has been called “Christianity’s Salman Rushdie” by the Denver Post. Born in 1947, this uncategorizable novelist has spent most of his adult life writing satiric fiction that dissects the received theological wisdom of his day — and of days gone by.

Thus far Morrow’s best known literary effort is The Last Witchfinder, praised by Free Inquiry magazine as a “multi-tiered, magisterial, yet cogently designed novel.” This offbeat historical epic tells of Jennet Stearne, who makes it her life’s mission to bring down the 1604 Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. He followed it with a thematic sequel, The Philosopher’s Apprentice, in which a woman with an overactive conscience fights against “Corporate Christi,” the West’s cheerful embrace of feel-good theocracy.

Throughout the 1990’s the author’s principal accomplishment was killing the Supreme Being, an endeavor he pursued through three darkly comic novels known collectively as The Godhead Trilogy. Towing Jehovah, winner of the World Fantasy Award, tells of a supertanker captain’s attempt to bury the two-mile-long corpse of God. In Blameless in Abaddon, a New York Times Notable Book, a Pennsylvania magistrate puts God on trial for crimes against humanity. The Eternal Footman chronicles the “plague of death awareness” that descends on humankind after God’s skull goes into geosynchronous orbit above Times Square.

Morrow’s other novels include the World Fantasy Award-winning Only Begotten Daughter, the Nebula Award-winning City of Truth, This Is the Way the World Ends, and, most recently, Shambling Towards Hiroshima. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife Kathy, son Chris, and two adopted dogs. His favorite quotation comes from the British philosopher Galen Strawson: “It is tempting to conclude that if [God] exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously."
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At 10:44pm on March 17, 2010, Wes Bonez said…
(= Happy Birthday from Washington State! =)
At 6:48am on March 17, 2010, John Jubinsky said…
Hi James! Have a very happy birthday.
At 9:20am on September 25, 2009, Joe Pike said…
I loved the interview on Chariots of Iron. I listened to it last night at work. It sounded like you had a good time. I am glad they had you on, I can't wait to pick up some books!
At 7:12am on August 5, 2009, Jan Hochbruck said…
The interview on Chariots of Iron triggered me to buy "Towing Jehova", and yes, that's the best I read in months (I read much). What do you think about turning the novel into a comic book?
At 7:11pm on July 12, 2009, John Q. Antichrist or Rosco said…
I loved your interview on Chariots of Iron. When Joe started talking about your books, I went out and bought Towing Jehovah - a truly fascinating read. I look forward to the rest of your novels!
At 11:53pm on June 7, 2009, Nate said…
“It is tempting to conclude that if [God] exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously."

So true!

I've been meaning to read Towing Jehovah for some time now. Very neat meeting the author here on A|N.

Kind regards,

Nate
 
 
 

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I'm telling Miss Julie! . . (Sombody wants a spanking!!).
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Seems like you could be in danger of getting more than just your tongue stuck, to a dancing pole at the north pole . . .
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