Paul Wilkes

Background

He was born the youngest of seven children to immigrant parents, both Slovaks, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended Cathedral Latin High School.

Education

Bachelor in Journalism, Marquette University, 1960. Master of Science in Journalism, Columbia University, 1967.

Career

At Marquette University he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1960. He then entered the United States. Navy as a communications officer, serving from 1961 to 1964. at Columbia University. Wilkes started his career as a writer for the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colorado from 1964 to 1966.

He joined the Baltimore Sun from 1967 to 1968, then worked as a book editor for Harper & Row in New York City in 1969.

The next year he joined Harper"s Magazine Press as a book editors He has taught writing at Brooklyn College, the University of Pittsburgh, Boston University, College of the Holy Cross, Clark University, and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Wilkes has written for many magazines, including The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, America, and Commonweal. In 1994 he published And They Shall be My People: An American Rabbi and His Congregation, the story of Congregation Beth Israel of Worcester, Massachusetts.

In 2000, he was a critic of the Holy Office"s declaration Dominus Iesus.

They have two children.

Achievements

• Paul Wilkes has been listed as a notable author, television producer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • In Mysterious Ways: The Death and Life of a Parish Priest

    ( Originally published to extraordinary acclaim, selected...)

  • Fitzgo: the wild dog of Central Park

    (The adventures of a stray dog that survives by scavenging...)

  • Fitzgo: the wild dog of Central Park

    (The adventures of a stray dog that survives by scavenging...)

  • The Education of an Archbishop: Travels with Rembert Weakland by Paul Wilkes (1992-09-03)

    (Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)

  • These Priests Stay, The American Catholic Clergy in Crisis
  • The Education of an Archbishop: Travels with Rembert Weakland
  • These Priests Stay
  • Companions Along the Way
  • Trying out the dream: A year in the life of an American family

Membership

Co-founder Christian Help in Park Slope, 1973-1975. Selectman Town of Hardwick, since 1991. Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1961-1964.

Member Slovak Studies Association (president 1985-1987).

Connections

Married Tracy Gochberg. Children: Paul Noah, Daniel Thomas.

Father:

Paul Thomas Wilkes

Mother:

Margaret (Salansky) Wilkes

Spouse:

Tracy Gochberg

child:

Paul Noah Wilkes

child:

Daniel Thomas Wilkes