PHYLLIS TICKLE,
founding editor of the Religion Department of PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, the
international journal of the book industry, is frequently quoted in print
sources like USA TODAY, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NY TIMES as well as in
electronic media like PBS, NPR, THE HALLMARK CHANNEL, and innumerable blogs and
web sites. Tickle is an authority on religion in America and a much sought
after lecturer on the subject.
In addition to lectures and numerous essays, articles, and interviews, Tickle
is the author of over two dozen books in religion and spirituality, most recently
The Great Emergence, How Christianity is Changing and Why and The
Words of Jesus, A Gospel of the Sayings of Our Lord. She is also the
author of the notable and popular The Divine Hours series of manuals for
observing fixed-hour prayer: The Divine Hours – Prayers for Summertime, The
Divine Hours – Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime, The Divine Hours – Prayers
for Springtime, Eastertide- Prayers for Lent Through Easter from The Divine
Hours, and Christmastide – Prayers for Advent through Epiphany from The Divine
Hours (Doubleday); The Night Offices from The Divine Hours and The
Pocket Edition of The Divine Hours (Oxford University Press); and This
Is What I Pray Today – The Divine Hours Prayers for Children (Dutton)
Tickle,who was with PUBLISHERS WEEKLY until her retirement in 2004, began her
career as a college teacher and, for almost ten years, served as academic dean
to the Memphis College of Art before entering full time into writing and publishing.
In September 1996 she received the Mays Award, one of the book industry's most
prestigious awards for lifetime achievement in writing and publishing, and
specifically in recognition of her work in gaining mainstream media coverage of
religion publishing. In 2007 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The
Christy Awards "In gratitude for a lifetime as an advocate for fiction written
to the glory of God." In 2004, she received the honorary degree of Doctor of
Humane Letters from the Berkeley School of Divinity at Yale University. In 2009 she received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from North Park University.
Tickle is
a founding member of The Canterbury Roundtable, and serves now, as she has in
the past, on a number of advisory and corporate boards. A lay eucharistic
minister and lector in the Episcopal Church, she is the mother of seven
children and, with her physician-husband, makes her home on a small farm in Lucy, Tennessee.
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