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Karen Prior, PhD

Karen Prior, PhD

Professor of English — Liberty University in Lynchburg

Karen Swallow Prior (PhD, SUNY Buffalo) is an award-winning professor of English at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. She is the author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books, Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me, and Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist. Prior has written for Christianity Today, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, First Things, Vox, Think Christian, and The Gospel Coalition. She is a research fellow with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, a senior fellow with Liberty University's Center for Apologetics and Cultural Engagement, a Senior Fellow with The Trinity Forum, and a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Humane Society of the United States.

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On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing reade...

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