Lorraine Murray
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Murray was born in New YorkNew York
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. She received her bachelors degree in English from the University of Florida
University of Florida
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in 1968, and her doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
in 1982.
A radical feminist and atheist for over 20 years, she returned to Catholicism in her forties, a conversion journey she wrote about in her book, Confessions of an Ex-Feminist. Her other books include How Shall We Celebrate?, Why Me? Why Now?: Finding Hope When You Have Breast Cancer, and Grace Notes: Embracing the Joy of Christ in a Broken World. She has also written two mystery novels, Death in the Choir and Death of a Liturgist. Her essays on Christian themes appear in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Georgia Bulletin, and the National Catholic Register
National Catholic Register
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. She is married to Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
artist Jef Murray
Jef Murray
Jef Murray is a fantasy artist and illustratorbest known for his illustrations of works byJ.R.R. Tolkien. His paintings andillustrations appear regularly in Tolkienpublications Jef Murray (Jeffrey Patrick Murray, born 1960) is a fantasy artist and illustratorbest known for his illustrations of...
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She won the second place Catholic Press Association
Catholic Press Association
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award for "Best regular column – general commentary" in 2006.