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Paul Wilkes (born 1938) is an American writer and filmmaker who is best known for his focus on religion, especially Roman Catholicism and its monastic tradition. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Monasticism (from Greek μοναχός, monachos, derived from Greek monos, alone is the religious practice in which one

He was born the youngest of seven children to immigrant parents, both Slovaks, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended Cathedral Latin High School. Immigration refers to the movement of people among countries While the movement of people has existed throughout human history at various levels modern immigration implies long-term } The Slovaks or Slovakians are a western Slavic People that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state Ohio ( is a Midwestern state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads For schools of the same name see Notre Dame High School. Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin is a Coeducational, Catholic High school At Marquette University he received his B. Marquette University is a private coeducational Jesuit, Roman Catholic University located in Milwaukee Wisconsin. A. in 1960. He then entered the U.S. Navy as a communications officer, serving from 1961 to 1964. In 1967 he completed an M. A. at Columbia University. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League.

Wilkes started his career as a writer for the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colorado from 1964 to 1966. The Daily Camera is a daily Newspaper in Boulder Colorado. Frederick P Boulder is a Home Rule Municipality that is the County seat and most populous city of Boulder County, Colorado, in the United States The State of Colorado ( or chiefly by nonresidents) is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. 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 Baltimore Sun (officially just The Sun) is Maryland ’s largest general circulation daily newspaper and provides comprehensive coverage Harper & Row was a publishing company based in New York City. The City of New York The next year he joined Harper's Magazine Press as a book editor. Harper's Magazine (also Harper's) is a monthly general-interest Magazine of literature politics culture finance and the arts

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. Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn New York. The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a non-sectarian coeducational independent state-related, "public" research University For similarly-named academic institutions see Education in Boston MA. The College of the Holy Cross is a prestigious exclusively undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester Massachusetts, Clark University is a private University and Liberal arts college in Worcester Massachusetts. The University of North Carolina Wilmington is a public University located in Wilmington North Carolina.

Wilkes has written for many magazines, including The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, America, and Commonweal. The New Yorker is an American Magazine that publishes reportage commentary criticism essays fiction satire cartoons and poetry The New York Times Magazine is a supplement to the Sunday The New York Times newspaper The Atlantic (formerly known as The Atlantic Monthly) is an American Magazine founded in Boston in 1857 America is a national weekly Magazine published by the American Jesuits that contains news and opinion about the Roman Catholic Church Commonweal is a New York City -based American journal of opinion edited and managed by lay Catholics.

He is married to Tracy Gochberg. They have two children.

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