A Review: The Autobiography of God

The Autobiography of God, a novel by Julius Lester (St. Martin’s Press), 245 pagesJulius Lester, in his uniquely funny and very serious novel, The Autobiography of God, is both entertaining and enlightening. As a child in a small rural town in the American Midwest of the 1950s, I had only the vaguest sense of ethnic or religious differences. Almost everyone was of northern European descent and Protestant. There were a few Catholics and a couple black families in town. One older couple lived … [Read more...]