Author Bio
KEVIN ROOSE is a writer in Brooklyn, New York.
During his sophomore year of college, Kevin met a group of students from Liberty University, the late Reverend Jerry Falwell’s “Bible Boot Camp” for young evangelicals. Inspired by that meeting, he decided to spend a semester “abroad” at Liberty, learning about his conservative Christian peers by living among them.
His book about the experience, THE UNLIKELYDISCIPLE: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University, was published in March 2009 by Grand Central Publishing. It was chosen for Barnes & Noble’s prestigious “Discover Great New Writers” series, featured by Newsweek, Time, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” USA Today, Marie Claire, Psychology Today, and Details, and praised by the New York Times Book Review, Christianity Today, Publishers Weekly, and many other reviewers. In addition, an excerpt from the book won Brown University’s 2009 Casey Shearer Memorial award for best non-fiction writing by an undergraduate.
In addition to working on his second book (a nonfiction account of young Wall Street bankers), Kevin writes for publications like Esquire, SPIN, and the Huffington Post, and is coordinating The Jonah Project, an online social campaign aimed at bringing Americans from opposite sides of the political/religious spectrum together for honest, respectful conversations about the culture wars.