Paul Wiebe
Author | Fort Collins,CO/USA |
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I was born and reared in a small Idaho town by members of the merchant class. My family were progressive Mennonites, of the kind that wore standard clothes, had no beards, and drove cars. After high school, where I had a sports column in the student newspaper, I went to Bethel College, a Mennonite institution in Kansas. There I was an Eng.... more
I was born and reared in a small Idaho town by members of the merchant class. My family were progressive Mennonites, of the kind that wore standard clothes, had no beards, and drove cars. After high school, where I had a sports column in the student newspaper, I went to Bethel College, a Mennonite institution in Kansas. There I was an English major and helped edit the school paper, for which I wrote humorous columns. In my final year, I received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, given to a thousand college seniors who had chosen to enter graduate work to pursue a career in college teaching.
After a year in a Philosophy department, I switched to the University of Chicago Divinity School, where I received a Ph.D. I then spent my teaching career in the Religion Department at Wichita State University, where I taught comparative religion as well as honors courses in religion and literature. In my later years at WSU, my attention drifted to writing fiction, always of the comic type and always dealing in some odd way with religion. After taking a very early retirement, I devoted full-time to my writing, self-publishing this and three other novels under my Komos Books imprint.