Bruce Feiler is a New York Times columnist and best-selling author of ten books, including Walking the Bible, Abraham, and Where God Was Born, an award-winning journalist, and the writer-presenter of the PBS miniseries Walking the Bible.  He has traveled to over 60 countries, on five continents, immersing himself in different cultures.  The result is numerous acclaimed books that take readers along on his fascinating adventures and bring other worlds vividly to life.  

 

His books include Learning to Bow, an account of the year he spent teaching in a small Japanese town, Looking for Class, about life inside Oxford and Cambridge, and Under the Big Top, which depicts the year he spent performing as a clown in the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus. 

Walking the Bible explores the parallels between religion, geography, and the emotional issues of our time. Feiler describes his perilous, 10,000-mile journey retracing the Five Books of Moses through the desert.  The book was hailed as an “instant classic” by the Washington Post and “thoughtful, informed, and perceptive” by The New York Times.  It spent more than a year and a half on the New York Times bestseller list, has been translated into fifteen languages, and is the subject of a children’s book, and a photography book.

 

Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths recounts his personal search for the shared ancestor of Jews, Christians, and Muslims.  “Exquisitely written,” wrote the Boston Globe, “100 percent engaging.” Praised as a “revolution of thought” by TIME magazine, which featured the book on its cover, Abraham was named one of the best books of the year by Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, The Christian Science Monitor and Publishers Weekly. Abraham became a runaway New York Times bestseller, and inspired thousands of grassroots interfaith discussions around the world.  

In Where God Was Born: A Personal Journey to the Roots of Religion, Feiler describes his year-long trek retracing the Bible through the frontlines of Israel, Iraq, and Iran.  “Bruce Feiler is a real-life Indiana Jones,” wrote the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  “Excellent,” said the Washington Post. “Feiler’s careful writing and sweeping histories of the region provide compelling reading.”  The book was published in September 2005 and became a Top Ten New York Times bestseller.

 

In 2006, PBS aired a three-hour miniseries Walking the Bible with Bruce Feiler that received record ratings and was viewed by 20 million people in its first month. “Beguiling,” wrote the Wall Street Journal. “Mr. Feiler is an engaging and informed guide. Three splendid hours.” 

 

Feiler's recent book is America’s Prophet: How the Story of Moses Shaped America, reveals the central role Moses has played in American history-from the Pilgrims to the Founding Fathers, from Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama-and explores how he can provide meaning in a moment of national crisis. America's Prophet was identified by Glenn Beck as one of the three most influential books of 2009. It was also a New York Times bestseller.

 

 

A graduate of Yale, Bruce Feiler hold a master’s degree in international relations from Cambridge. Feiler has written for The New York Times and Washington Post, and he is a contributing editor at Gourmet and the winner of two James Beards Awards for his food writing. He also is a regular contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered and CNN. His column Family Matters, appears monthly in the Sunday Edition of the New York Times. Feiler has been the subject of a Jay Leno joke and a JEOPARDY! question, and his face appears on a postage stamp in the Grenadines.  

 

A native of Savannah, Georgia, Bruce Feiler lives in New York with wife, Linda Rottenberg, and their twin daughters.