An Author Who Exemplifies Artistry and Craftsmanship
Last time we said we'd see another instance of how craft plays an important role in art, this time from an author's perspective. Our author will be Taylor Caldwell . If you're not familiar with her vast body of work, she was quite popular in her day. Her own choice for favorite book was Dear and Glorious Physician . Based on historical fact, it's her vision of the life of St. Luke the Evangelist. Right off the bat, we find a marriage of an artist's imagination with the world of hard facts. She took over 40 years to write this book - a real work of love. During those long years, she researched the time and places when St. Luke walked the earth. The story is based upon a broad understanding of St. Luke as an historical figure, one we are all familiar with. He was a physician, and he wrote a Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. Well, most of us Catholics have an idea of him as a real person (or should) based on this alone. But she filled in the gaps between broad un...