
Jay Parini
Author · 17 books
Jay Parini (born 1948) is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels and poetry, biography and criticism.
Books

Why Poetry Matters
2008

The Damascus Road
A Novel of Saint Paul
2019

Borges and Me
An Encounter
2020

The Apprentice Lover
2002

Empire of Self
A Life of Gore Vidal
2015

The Passages of H. M.
A Novel of Herman Melville
2010

Promised Land
Thirteen Books That Changed America
2008

The Way of Jesus
Living a Spiritual and Ethical Life
2018

John Steinbeck
A Biography
1994

Robert Frost
A Life
1998

The Art Of Subtraction
2005

The Art of Teaching
2004

Robert Frost
Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart
2024

New and Collected Poems
1975-2015
2016

One Matchless Time
A Life of William Faulkner
2004

Benjamin's Crossing
1997

Jesus
The Human Face of God
2013