Karen Swallow Prior
Author · 5 books
Karen Swallow Prior (PhD, SUNY Buffalo) is the award-winning author of The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis; On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books; Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist; and Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me. She is a frequent speaker, a monthly columnist at Religion News Service, and has written for Christianity Today, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Vox. She is a Contributing Editor for Comment, a founding member of The Pelican Project, a Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum, and a Senior Fellow at the International Alliance for Christian Education.
Books
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
A Guide to Reading and Reflecting
2022
On Reading Well
Finding the Good Life through Great Books
2018
The Evangelical Imagination
How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
2023
Fierce Convictions
The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More--Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
2014
Booked
Literature in the Soul of Me
2012
