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(1921-2016) Poet. Daniel J. Berrigan was born in Virginia, Minnesota, and died in the Bronx, New York.

Full Name

Daniel J Berrigan

Locations

Onondaga

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Father Berrigan taught at Fordham University.

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RESIDENCE

Father Berrigan lived part of his childhood near Syracuse, New York.

1921

BIRTH

Daniel Joseph Berrigan was born in Virginia, Minnesota, on May 9, 1921.

1946

OTHER

Father Berrigan earned a bachelor's degree from St. Andrew-on-Hudson, a Jesuit seminary in Hyde Park, New York, in 1946.

1954

OTHER

Father Berrigan taught at the Jesuits' Brooklyn Preparatory School for three years in the mid 1950s.

1957

LITWORK

Time Without Number
New York: Macmillan

Collection of poetry and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize.

1957

OTHER

Father Berrigan taught at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, from 1957 to 1963.

1966

OTHER

Father Berrigan was assistant director of the Cornell University United Religious Work (CURW) from 1966 to 1970.

1970

LITWORK

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
Boston: Beacon Press

One-act play.

1973

LITWORK

Prison Poems
Unicorn Press
978-0877750499 / 0877750491
Collection of poetry.

1973

RESIDENCE

Father Berrigan lived at the New York West Side Jesuit Community on Manhattan���s Upper West Side from 1973 until the end of his life.

1987

LITWORK

To Dwell in Peace
Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock
978-1-55-635473-1
Autobiography.

1996

LITWORK

Isaiah : Spirit of Courage, Gift of Tears
Fortress Press
0800629981 / 978-0800629984
Nonfiction.

1998

LITWORK

Daniel: Under the Siege of the Divine
Farmington, Pennsylvania: The Plough Publishing House.
978-1-60-608467-0
Nonfiction.

1998

LITWORK

And the Risen Bread: Selected Poems, 1957-1997
New York: Fordham University Press
082321821X / 978-0-82-321821-9
Collection of poetry.

1999

LITWORK

Jeremiah: The World, the Wound of God
Minneapolis: Fortress Press
0800631382 / 978-0800631383
Nonfiction.

2008

LITWORK

The Kings and Their Gods: The Pathology of Power
Eerdmans
0802860435 / 978-0802860439
Nonfiction.

2009

LITWORK

Daniel Berrigan: Essential Writings
Orbis Books
1570758379 / 978-1570758379
A collection of Father Berrigan's work.

2016

DEATH

Daniel J. Berrigan died at Murray-Weigel Hall, the Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University, in the Bronx, New York, on April 30, 2016.

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