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$\"black$ <\/a>Did you know that the author of\u00a0Black Like Me<\/em>\u00a0the classic book about race relations in America, was a convert to Catholicism?<\/p>\n

This article <\/a>from today\u2019s Daily Telegraph tells the story of John Howard Griffin, a Texan who famously tried to cross the color line in the segregated South.<\/p>\n

Griffin was an extraordinary person. His\u00a0mother was a classical pianist, and he\u00a0acquired his love of music from her. He went to study in France\u2013studying French literature and medicine.\u00a0At 19, he worked as a medic in the French Resistance and\u00a0helped smuggle Austrian\u00a0 Jews<\/a>\u00a0to safety and freedom. He then joined the US Army Air Corps and was\u00a0stationed in the South Pacific. \u00a0He spent 1943\u201344 as the only Caucasian on the Solomon Islands and married an islander. He wrote about his experiences in his novel\u00a0Nuni<\/i>\u00a0(1956) is a semi-autobiographical work that draws heavily on his year \u201cmarooned\u201d on the island.<\/p>\n

Left blind by a 1946 accident in the army\u00a0he began to write. He came home to Texas, converted to Catholicism in 1952, became a lay Carmelite and taught piano. \u00a0\u00a0In 1953, he married (with dispensation from the Vatican on account of his first marriage) one of his students, Elizabeth Ann Holland, with whom he had four children. In 1957, he regained his eyesight and became an accomplished photographic artist. Griffin\u2019s experiences with blindness were published in 1962 as\u00a0Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I remember reading\u00a0Black Like Me\u00a0<\/em>in junior high school, but never knew the amazing life of the author. His adventure of getting into another race\u2019s skin was amazing enough, but to think that he led such an adventuresome life is astounding and beneath it all a deep faith and a burning intellect.<\/p>\n

Black Like Me\u00a0<\/em>is worth another read, and I\u2019m putting Howard in the pantheon of great American Southern Catholic writers..<\/p>\n

Image<\/a> via Bing<\/em><\/p>\n

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