Christopher L. Webber is the author of more than two dozen books, including ​American to the Backbone: The Life of James W. C. Pennington, The Fugitive Slave Who Became One of the First Black Abolitionists and Beyond Beowulf. A graduate of Princeton University and a priest of the Episcopal Church, Webber has served parishes in New York and Connecticut and has also written several hymns. Webber lives with his wife on an old farm in northwestern Connecticut.

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