Biographie de l'auteur :
Award-winning writer and playwright Ron Ferguson read philosophy and history at St Andrews University, and graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a first class honours degree in theology, followed by postgraduate studies at Duke University, North Carolina. After eight years ministry in the Easterhouse housing scheme, Glasgow, he was elected Leader of the ecumenical Iona Community. He was minister of St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, for eleven years, and was theologian-in-residence at White Memorial Presbyterian Church, Raleigh, North Carolina. Now a columnist and book reviewer with the Glasgow Herald, the Press and Journal and Life & Work magazine, he was shortlisted for the Scottish Writer of the Year award for his best-selling biography of George MacLeod. He is the author of 14 well-received books, including three biographies, cult football book Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil, and Mole under the Fence, a book of conversations with Roman Catholic monk Father Roland Walls. His one-man play, Every Blessed Thing, was performed by leading Scottish actor Tom Fleming in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Toronto, New York and Connecticut. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Glasgow Caledonian University in 2010. He lives in rural Orkney with his wife, Cristine.
Revue de presse :
'This is a remarkable, compelling and I think rather profound book . . .as absorbing and inspiring a study of an artist's life and work as I have read. - --Andrew Greig, poet and novelist
. . .wonderfully wise and humane, often unsettling, even distressing, but always affirmative. . .[this book] promises the reader a deeply rewarding experience. - --Stewart Conn, award-winning poet, Edinburgh s first Makar
Ron Ferguson has written an extraordinary account of two spiritual journeys, his own and that of the wonderful poet George Mackay Brown, which interweave with the moving pathos of a Beethoven violin sonata, against the haunting background of the magic of Orkney . . . Beautifully written, Ferguson's highly original story reveals the unique impulses of imagination and character that shape an individual's spiritual story. --John Cornwell, author and commentator
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