ISBN: … He is the author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own and Reinventing Bach, and of essays and articles for the Atlantic, New York Times, Vanity Fair, Commonweal, and other periodicals.He blogs regularly at Everything That Rises. $18.00 . It has just been published in paperback. Elie (The Life You Save May Be Your Own) has the ability to weave together many small stories to narrate a big story.In Reinventing Bach, he tells the story of how Johann Sebastian Bach became in the minds of many people the greatest composer ever.The story Elie tells is less about Bach himself than about the reception and advancement of his music in the 20th century. Paul Elie s first book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, was a National Book Critics Circle award finalist. The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage (Paperback) By Paul Elie. Yet if the arguments are sometimes frustrating, the book is a page-turner with astute accounts of Bach’s life folded in. Article Type: Recommendations. A pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story; and in The Life You Save May Be Your Own Paul Elie tells these writers' story as a pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life. Home > Article > THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN: AN AMERICAN PILGRIMAGE (Paul Elie) THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN: AN AMERICAN PILGRIMAGE (Paul Elie) Submitted by elizabeth on Aug 3rd, 5:20PM . The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage, by Paul Elie. (2004). Paul Elie a senior fellow in Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. By Amanda Angaiak, Published on 12/01/04. The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX. Angaiak, A. Recommended Citation. Paul Elie — The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God (Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy) The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003) is a group portrait of four twentieth-century Catholic writers (Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day). Mr. Elie’s first book, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own…