Alan Jacobs

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Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University and a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. A prolific essayist, reviewer, and blogger, he is the author of Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil MindThe Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis“The Book of Common Prayer”: A Biography, and The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, among others. Jacobs was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. He’s been married for forty-two years and has a grown-up son. He is an Anglican Christian.

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