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From Monsters and Critics.com Books News Honor Moore has written The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir, telling all about her father, Paul Moore. The NYT has noted that those familiar with the book, “know it as the book in which Honor Moore outs her famous father, a man celebrated as a paragon of virtue, a priest whose vestments seemed to set him apart from passions that sully ordinary men. But Paul Moore Jr.’s bisexuality — a fact previously known only to family and a few friends — was an important and decidedly not sublimated aspect of his essential self. There is no way to write a book about him, or about being his daughter, that fails to consider its place in his life and its impact on Just to give a bit from the book description, “The Bishop's Daughter is a daughter's story of that complex, visionary man: a chronicle of her turbulent relationship with a father who struggled privately with his sexuality while she openly explored hers, and a searching account of the consequences of sexual secrets. With a depth of questioning that recalls James Carroll's An American Requiem, this memoir engages the reader in the great issues of American life: war, race, family, sexuality, and faith.” W. W. Norton is the publisher, and Amazon notes that the book contains 22 photographs. Readers should visit the NYT article to find out more.
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