Jack Miles (www.JackMiles.com) is the author of a trilogy of books about God in three classical scriptures: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim. The first of these, God: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996. The second, Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God (Knopf, 2001), led to his being named A MacArthur Fellow during the years 2003-2007. The third, published only after years of hesitation, was God in the Qur’an (Knopf, 2018). Miles, a former executive editor of the University of California Press, served for ten years as successively literary editor of the Los Angeles Times and member of its editorial board writing on religion and international relations. Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English & Religious Studies at the University of California, Irvine, Miles is general editor of the Norton Anthology of World Religions (2014-2015) for which he won his university’s Distinguished Faculty Research Award in 2016. Miles’s shorter work on religion, politics, and culture has appeared in The American Scholar, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Commonweal, and many other publications.  Most recently, he is the co-author, with Mark C. Taylor, of A Friendship in Twilight: Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life (Columbia University Press, 2022).