Brian Doyle(1956–2017) was a best-selling and award-winning author who served as editor of Portland Magazine from 1991 to 2017.
Doyle wrote many books of fiction, essays, and poems, including A Book of Uncommon Prayer, which was named one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2014 by Spirituality & Practice and received an honorable mention in the spiritual softcover books category from the Catholic Press Association. Doyle’s novels include Mink River, The Plover, Chicago, and The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World. His book Martin Marten won the 2016 Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature and the 2017 John Burroughs Medal for distinguished nature writing.
Doyle was honored with several book awards from the Catholic Press Association, the Christopher Award, three Pushcart Prizes, the University of Notre Dame’s Rev. Robert F. Griffin Award, the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award. However, his most important award and blessing was being a dad.
Doyle’s work appeared in a number of publications, including Orion, The American Scholar, The Sun, The New York Times, Harper’s, Commonweal, America, U.S. Catholic, The Christian Century, National Catholic Reporter, First Things, and Give Us This Day. His essays have been reprinted in several anthologies.
