Daniel Berrigan (1921–2016)
Author of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
About the Author
Daniel Berrigan was born in Virginia, Minnesota on May 9, 1921. He received a bachelor's degree in 1946 from St. Andrew-on-Hudson, a Jesuit seminary in Hyde Park, New York, and a master's degree from Woodstock College in Baltimore in 1952. He was ordained as a Jesuit priest that year. He spent a show more year of study and ministerial work in France, then taught theology and French at the Jesuits' Brooklyn Preparatory School. He taught or ran programs at Union Seminary, Loyola University New Orleans, Columbia University, Cornell University, and Yale University before settling into a long tenure at Fordham University. In the 1960s, he held defiant protests that helped shape the tactics of opposition to the Vietnam War. These protest included burning of Selective Service draft records in Catonsville, Maryland for which he was convicted of destroying government property and sentenced to three years in the federal prison. He served from 1970 to 1972. He was arrested several more times for taking part in the Plowshares raid on a General Electric missile plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania in 1980 and for blocking the entrance to the Intrepid naval museum in Manhattan in 2006. He wrote more than 50 books during his lifetime including 15 volumes of poetry. His works included To Dwell in Peace and Daniel Berrigan: Essential Writings. Time Without Number won the Lamont Poetry Prize (now known as the James Laughlin Award), in 1957. He died on April 30, 2016 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Credit: Kevin Ksen, 2005, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
Works by Daniel Berrigan
The Geography of Faith : Underground Conversations on Religious, Political, and Social Change, Expanded Anniversary… (1971) 117 copies, 2 reviews
Daniel Berrigan: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters Series) (2009) — Author — 41 copies, 2 reviews
Steadfastness of the Saints: A Journal of Peace and War in Central and North America (1985) 37 copies
Daniel Berrigan: Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes: Conversations After Prison With Lee Lockwood (1972) — Author — 16 copies
Time without number 9 copies
May All Creatures Live. 2 copies
The Hammer Has To Fall 1 copy
St. John in Exile VHS 1 copy
Associated Works
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist (1952) — Introduction, some editions — 1,287 copies, 17 reviews
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contributor — 341 copies, 2 reviews
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contributor — 90 copies, 1 review
Swords Into Plowshares - A Chronology of Plowshares Disarmament Actions 1980-2003 (2003) — Foreword — 9 copies
unmuzzled ox 13 — Contributor — 7 copies
Words Among America: Sixty Poems of Challenge and Hope — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1921-05-09
- Date of death
- 2016-04-30
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Virginia, Minnesota, USA
- Place of death
- Bronx, New York, USA
- Education
- Woodstock College, Baltimore (MA|1952)
St. Andrew on Hudson (BA|1946) - Occupations
- Catholic priest
poet
peace activist
teacher - Relationships
- Berrigan, Philip (brother)
- Organizations
- Roman Catholic Church
Society of Jesus
Fordham University
Brooklyn Preparatory School
Le Moyne College - Awards and honors
- Lamont Award, American Academy of Poets (1957)
Campion Award (1998)
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Statistics
- Works
- 72
- Also by
- 15
- Members
- 1,589
- Popularity
- #16,233
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 21
- ISBNs
- 121
- Languages
- 3
- Favorited
- 2