The Death and Life of Bishop Pike
An Utterly Candid Biography of America's Most Controversial Clergyman
by William Stringfellow and Anthony Towne
Introduction by Diane Kennedy Pike
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
528 Pages, 5.50 x 8.50 x 1.06 in
- Paperback
- 9781556353277
- Published: June 2007
$58.00 / £51.00 / AU$81.00
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William Stringfellow was a practicing attorney and a prominent Episcopalian, who frequently contributed to legal and theological journals. After his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1956, he practiced some years in the East Harlem neighborhood in New York City, subsequently moving to Block Island, RI. When Daniel Berrigan was apprehended by the FBI at Stringfellow and Towne's home in 1969, the hosts were charged with "harboring a fugative."
Anthony Towne was a poet whose work appeared in such publications as The New Yorker. Best known for Excerpts from the Diaries of the Late God, he was a book review editor for Motive Magazine, founder of the Block Island Writers Guild, and collaborator with Stringfellow on a number of book projects.
"He had a restless, relentless, questing, insatiable curiosity for living. His was an open, intuitive, risking, audacious spirit. Bishop Pike has been frequently called a prophet; we consider that not quite precise; we think his genre is pioneer."
--from the Preface