Christopher Webber is the author of more than two dozen books, including "Reinventing Marriage" and "Beyond Beowulf". A graduate of Princeton University and a priest of the Episcopal Church, Webber has served parishes in New York and Connecticut and has also written several hymns. His interest in James W. C. Pennington developed while compiling "A Yearbook of American Saints". Webber lives with his wife on an old farm in northwestern Connecticut.