Saint Augustine : A Life

Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills brings the same fresh scholarship, lively prose, and critical appreciation that characterize his well-known books on religion and American history to this outstanding biography of one of the most influential Christian philosophers.Saint Augustinefollows its subject from his youth in fourth-century Africa to his conversion and subsequent development as a theologian. It challenges the widely held misconceptions about Augustine’s sexual excesses and shows how, in embracing classical philosophy, Augustine managed to enlist pagan authors” in the defense of Christianity. The result is a biography that makes a spiritual ancestor feel like our contemporary.

Garry Wills has translated four volumes of Saint Augustine-'s Confessions (Childhood, Memory, Sin, and Conversion), and is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Why I Am a Catholic and Papal Sin as well as the Pulitzer Prize-ûwinning Lincoln at Gettysburg.