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Bruce Feiler is the New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible, The Council of Dads, Learning to Bow, Looking for Class, and Under the Big Top.
A frequent contributor to NPR's All Things Considered, and contributing editor for Gourmet he writes regularly about American music for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and other publications. He recieved international acclaim for his influential cover story in The New Republic, Gone Country. He also writes the "This Life" column about today's families for the Sunday New York Times.
He is the writer/presenter of the PBS series "Walking the Bible" and "Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler" (July 2014).
Bruce was named "Father of the Year" by the National Fatherhood Initiative.
A native of Savannah, Georgia, Feiler lives in Brooklyn with wife, Linda Rottenberg, and their daughters.
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Why did you write a book about Abraham?
I was actually working on another project about the Middle East when my brother
called me on the morning of September 11th and told me to look outside my
window. A few hours later I watched the towers fall. Like everyone else, I was
mute for several weeks as we began to hear these questions: Who are they? Why do
they hate us? Can the religions get along? We had been told for years that the
world would soon face a clash of civilization, the Islamic world versus the
Judeo-Christian world. Was this the start of that moment?
And if you listened closely to those questions, one name echoed behind all those
conversations. Abraham. He is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam. He is the father -- in many cases, the biological father -- of twelve
million Jews, two billion Christians, and one billion Muslims around the world.
And yet, he is virtually unknown.
I wanted to know him. I wanted to figure out whether he was a hopeless fount of
war or a possible vessel for reconciliation. And so, two weeks after September
11th, I got up off my couch, went back to the Middle East, and tried to answer
the question: Can Abraham save the world?
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