BRUCE FEILER

Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths

Tuesday, February 25 at 7:30pm · Mountainlair Ballroom

Bruce Feiler is The New York Times best-selling author of six books, an award-winning journalist, and speaker. He has traveled to over 60 countries, on five continents, immersing himself in different cultures and experiences. The result is six acclaimed books that take the reader along on his fascinating adventures and bring other worlds vividly to life.

In his latest bestseller, Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths, Feiler searches for the man at the heart of the world’s three monotheistic religions – and today’s deadliest conflicts. At a moment when the world is asking, “Can the religions get along?” this timely, provocative, and uplifting journey points to the one figure who stands out as the shared ancestor of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims; to the one man who holds the key to our deepest fears – and our possible reconciliation. Abraham. Feiler traveled to war zones, climbed through caves and ancient shrines, and sat down with the world’s leading religious minds to uncover fascinating, little-known details of the man who defines faith for half of the world.

A remarkable storyteller, Feiler has been hailed as one of the leading writers of his generation. A graduate of Yale, Feiler has studied at universities in Osaka and Oslo and holds a master’s degree in international relations from Cambridge University. He has earned numerous awards for journalism and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Conde NastTraveler, and Gourmet, where he is a contributing editor.

He is the author of Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses, which describes the year he spent retracing the greatest stories ever told through the desert; Dreaming Out Loud: Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes and the Changing Face of Nashville in which he describes his two-year adventure on a country music tour bus with Garth Brooks; Under the Big Top where he recounts his year as a circus clown; Looking for Class about his year spent studying at Oxford and Cambridge; and Learning to Bow, an account of the year he spent teaching in a small Japanese town.

In addition, Feiler is a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” where his eloquent commentaries have earned him a reputation as an engaging, amusing, and moving public speaker.