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Biographies of Dorothy Day

An Introduction to the Life and Spirituality of Dorothy Dayby James Allaire and Rosemary Broughton Servant of God Dorothy Dayby…


Additional articles about Dorothy Day’s life can be accessed on the Canonization page.

The Eleventh Virgin, an autobiographical novel written in 1924, is available in the Library.

Also in the Library is From Union Square To Rome, an account of her conversion written in 1938.

The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day’s most famous autobiography was reprinted by Harper in 1997.

The best recent biography is Jim Forest’s All Is Grace.
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See the Bibliography page for additional biographies.

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