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Peter Manseau

Peter Manseau is the author of the memoir Vows; the novel Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter; and his most recent work, Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World’s Holy Dead.

He has won the National Jewish Book Award, the Sophie Brody Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Jewish Literature, the Ribalow Prize for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Mercantile Library First Novel Award. His books have published in eight languages and on four continents.

A founding editor of KillingTheBuddha.com and coauthor of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible, he is both a doctoral candidate in religion and lecturer in journalism at Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two daughters.