Brian Doyle
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The 2008 CCS Auction Dinner “An Evening in the Garden: Sowing Seeds of Hope” is proud to welcome Brian Doyle, award-winning essayist and editor of the Portland Magazine at the University of Portland, as our keynote speaker.
Doyle is a prodigious writer. In addition to numerous magazine articles, recent book titles include:
- The Grail: A Year Ambling & Shambling Through an Oregon Vinyard in Pursuit of the Best Pinot Noir Wine in the Whole Wild World. Oregon State Univ Press, 2006
- The Wet Engine: Exploring the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart. Paraclete Press, 2005
- Spirited Men: Story, Soul and Substance . Cowley Publications, 2004
- Leaping: Revelations & Epiphanies. Loyola Press, 2003
- Saints Passionate & Peculiar: Brief Exuberant Essays for Teens. St. Mary's Press, 2002
- Credo: Essays on Grace, Altar Boys, Bees, Kneeling, Saints, the Mass, Priests, Strong Women, Epiphanies, a Wake, and the Haunting Thin Energetic Dusty figure . Saint Mary's Press, 1999
- Two Voices (with his father, Jim Doyle). Liguori Publications, 1996.
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Credo was listed, by acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates, as one of the "notable books of the twentieth century." Doyle received the 2008 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature . Spirited Men was a finalist for the 2005 Oregon Book award in creative nonfiction, Leaping was a finalist for the 2004 Oregon Book award in creative nonfiction, Two Voices won a Christopher Award and a Catholic Press Association Book Award.
His work has appeared in The Best American Essays anthologies, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Orion, The American Scholar, and magazines and newspapers in Africa, Australia, Ireland, France, England, and New Zealand.
Portland has earned four consecutive national gold medals as the finest small-circulation university magazine in the United States, and won the 2005 Sibley Award from Newsweek magazine as the finest university magazine in the United States.
Doyle is a frequent lecturer and speaker and has appeared in numerous venues, including National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation," and in the PBS film Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero (2002). He has presented at Australian Catholic University and Xavier College (both in Melbourne, Australia), Aquinas Academy (in Sydney, Australia); Washington State, Seattle Pacific, Oregon, Utah State, Concordia, and Marylhurst universities; Boston, Lewis & Clark, and Linfield colleges; the universities of Utah, Oregon, Pittsburgh, and Portland; KBOO radio (Portland), ABC and 3AW radio (Australia); and the College Theology Society.
He is a native of New York, educated at the University of Notre Dame, and has been a magazine and newspaper journalist in Portland, Boston, and Chicago for more than twenty years. He and his family live in Portland, Oregon.
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