Buechner ’ s books have been translated into many languages for publication around the world.

He is best known for his works A Long Day ’ s Dying ( his first work, published in 1950 ); The Book of Bebb, a tetralogy based on the character Leo Bebb published in 1979 ; Godric, a first person narrative of the life of the medieval saint, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 ; Brendan, a second novel narrating a saint ’ s life, published in 1987 ; Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner ( 1992 ); and his autobiographical works The Sacred Journey ( 1982 ), Now and Then ( 1983 ), Telling Secrets ( 1991 ), and The Eyes of the Heart: Memoirs of the Lost and Found ( 1999 ).

Buechner ’ s work has often been praised for its ability to inspire readers to see the grace in their daily lives.

During Buechner ’ s early childhood the family moved frequently, as Buechner ’ s father searched for work.

" This changed in 1936, when Buechner ’ s father committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning, a result of his conviction that he had been a failure.

During his senior year at Princeton, Buechner received the Irene Glascock Prize for poetry, and he also began working on his first novel and one of his greatest critical successes: A Long Day ’ s Dying, published in 1950.

The publication of A Long Day ’ s Dying catapulted Buechner into early and, in his own words, " undeserved " fame.

Buechner ’ s dense, reflective style was compared to Henry James and Marcel Proust, and he was hailed as one of the rising stars of American literature.

In a long and distinguished career, A Long Day ’ s Dying continues to be one of Buechner ’ s most successful works, both critically and commercially ( it was reissued in 2003 ).

However, his second novel, The Season ’ s Difference, published in 1952, in Buechner ’ s words, " fared as badly as the first one had fared well.

It was during one of Buttrick ’ s sermons that Buechner heard the words that inspired his ordination: Buttrick described the inward coronation of Christ as taking place in the hearts of those who believe in him " among confession, and tears, and great laughter.

Buechner ’ s decision to enter the seminary had come as a great surprise to those who knew him.

" Nevertheless, Buechner ’ s ministry and writing have ever since served to enhance each other ’ s message.

Buechner recalls of his accomplishments at Exeter: " All told, we were there for nine years with one year ’ s leave of absence tucked in the middle, and by the time we left, the religion department had grown from only one full-time teacher, namely myself, and about twenty students, to four teachers and something in the neighborhood, as I remember, of three hundred students or more.

The Book of Bebb tetralogy proved to be one of Buechner ’ s most well-known works.

In the words of The Reverend Samuel Lloyd, former dean of Washington National Cathedral, Buechner ’ s words " have nurtured the lives of untold seekers and followers " through " his capacity to see into the heart of every day.

His later novels, including the Book of Bebb series and Godric, received hearty praise ; in his 1980 review of Godric, Benjamin DeMott summed up a host of positive reviews, saying “ All on his own, Mr. Buechner has managed to reinvent projects of self-purification and of faith as piquant matter for contemporary fiction, producing in a single decade a quintet of books each of which is individual in concerns and knowledge, and notable for literary finish .” In 1982, author Reynolds Price greeted Buechner ’ s The Sacred Journey as “ a rich new vein for Buechner – a kind of detective autobiography ” and “ he result is a short but fascinating and, in its own terms, beautifully successful experiment .”

Buechner did not witness the alleged incident, however, and there was no mention of a second shooting in the official investigation report.

( Carl ) Frederick Buechner is an American writer and theologian.

Annie Dillard ( Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ) says: " Frederick Buechner is one of our finest writers.

Frederick Buechner is among the most widely read contemporary Christian authors.

Here the intimate relationship Buechner sees among fiction, theology, and autobiography is first made clear and fully embodied ; and the book itself is a thoroughly lyrical piece.

Buechner's combination of literary style with approachable, universally applicable subject matter has, to many of his fans, revolutionized contemporary Christian literature: " In my view, Buechner is doing a distinctively new thing on the literary scene, writing novels that are theologically exciting without becoming propaganda, and doing theology with artistic style and imagination.

Inaugurated in 2008 at King College, the Buechner Institute is dedicated to the work and example of Frederick Buechner, exploring the intersections and collisions of faith and culture that define our times.

Dale Brown, the founding director of the Buechner Institute, is the author of numerous articles and the recent critical biography, The Book of Buechner: A Journey Through His Writings.

Buechner has occasionally been accused of being too “ preachy ;” a 1984 review by Anna Shapiro in the New York Times notes “ But for all the colloquialism, there is something, well, preachy and a little unctuous about making yourself an exemplar of faith.

But for Buechner, it is precisely our doubts and struggles that mark us as human.

Buechner is neither sentimental nor detached, gloomy nor unduly optimistic.

" The word ' soul ' – not always welcome these days in secular culture – is the right word for Buechner.

The novel Godric ( 1981 ) by Frederick Buechner is a fictional retelling of his life and travels.

Godric ( ISBN 0-06-061162-6 ) is a novel published in 1981, written by Frederick Buechner, that tells the semi-fictionalised life story of medieval Catholic saint Godric of Finchale.

Godric is told in Saint Godric's own voice: Buechner intentionally uses style, tone, and word choice to evoke a " mediaeval " manner of speaking.

" This process showed Buechner a way out of the frustration he had felt while writing The Entrance to Porlock: by drawing on his own experience, he found the means to convey his thoughts through his writing.

While at Union, Buechner studied under such renowned theologians as Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, and James Muilenberg, who helped Buechner in his search for understanding:

" Among these students was the future author John Irving, who included a quotation from Buechner in the preface of his book A Prayer for Owen Meany.

The Buechner Institute sponsors convocations on most Mondays at 10: 30 a. m. in Memorial Chapel on the campus of King College that feature speakers from a variety of backgrounds who examine the ways in which faith informs art and public life and cultivate conversation about what faith has to do with books, politics, social discourse, music, visual arts, and more.

Buechner was a retired colonel with the U. S. Army who served in World War II and had written a book about the Dachau massacre.

Buechner has thus far published over thirty works, and continues to write more ; his latest book, Yellow Leaves, was released in 2008.

Buechner oversaw a major transformation in the way the museum displayed art and brought some one thousand works that had been languishing in the museum's archives and put them on display.

Frederick Buechner, the eldest son of Carl Frederick and Katherine ( Kuhn ) Buechner, was born on July 11, 1926 in New York City.

" The contrast between the success of his first novel and the commercial failure of the second was starkly visible, and it was on this note that Buechner left his teaching position at Lawrenceville to move to New York City and focus on his writing career.

" The impact of this phrase on Buechner was so great that he eventually entered the Union Theological Seminary in 1954, on a Rockefeller Brothers Theological Fellowship.

For the school year 1963-4, the Buechners took a sabbatical on their farm in Rupert, VT, during which time Buechner returned to his writing ; his fourth book, The Final Beast, was published in 1965.

In 2007, Buechner was presented with the lifetime achievement award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature.

A summer symposium on the work of Frederick Buechner was featured in 2010.

Dr. Howard A. Buechner, M. D., professor of medicine at Tulane and then Louisiana State University, wrote two books on the spear.

In the U. S. military " Investigation of Alleged Mistreatment of German Guards at Dachau " conducted by Lt. Col. Joseph Whitaker, the account given by Col. Howard Buechner ( then a Colonel in the United States Army and medical officer with the 3rd Battalion of the 157th Infantry ), to Whitaker on 5 May 1945 did not contradict the Sparks account.

The Buechner Institute sponsors convocations on most Mondays at 10: 30 a. m. that feature speakers from a variety of backgrounds to examine the ways in which faith informs art and public life and cultivate conversation about what faith has to do with books, politics, social discourse, music, visual arts, and more.

After this album the band split up and Karl Buechner, Erick Edwards and Bulldog went on to form the band Freya.