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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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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