Full name: The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography

Author: Dorothy Day Year: 1952 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs, Religion Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780060617516 0060617519

This inspiring and fascinating memoir, subtitled, "The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist," The Long Loneliness is the late Dorothy Day's compelling autobiographical testament to her life of social activism and her spiritual pilgrimage. A founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and longtime associate of Peter Maurin, Dorothy Day was eulogized in the New York Times as, "a nonviolent social radical of luminous personality." The Long Loneliness recounts her remarkable journey from the Greenwich Village political and literary scene of the 1920s through her conversion to Catholicism and her lifelong struggle to help bring about "the kind of society where it is easier to be good." (Description from Amazon.) Similar books: Father Joe by Tony Hendra Called Out of Darkness by Anne Rice Now and Then by Frederick Buechner Through the Narrow Gate by Karen Armstrong The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong Leaving Church by Barbara Brown Taylor Must You Go? by Antonia Fraser The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne Memoirs by Kingsley Amis My Life So Far by Jane Fonda After All by Mary Tyler Moore My Life as Me by Barry Humphries Under a Wing by Reeve Lindbergh The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton Troublemaker by Leah Remini The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner Escape by Carolyn Jessop Nearing Home by Billy Graham I Can Only Imagine by Bart Millard