Cathleen Falsani
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Cathleen Falsani (25 September 1970-) is the popular religion writer and columnist from the Chicago Sun-Times.
She was the 2005 Religion Writer of the Year, as awarded by the Religion Newswriters Association, a professional society of reporters, editors and producers who cover religion for the secular media in the United States and Canada. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed book, The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People, a collection of 32 spiritual profiles of famous "culture shapers" such as Bono of U2, Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, author Anne Rice, professional basketball player Hakeem Olajuwon, President George Herbert Bush's speechwriter and policy advisor Michael Gerson, cult-favorite author Tom Robbins, Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins fame, Studs Terkel, Iyanla Vanzant, hip-hop impresario and entrepreneur Russell Simmons, authors Laura Esquivel and Sandra Cisneros, Chicago Cubs mananger Dusty Baker,Blue Note jazzman Kurt Elling, singer-songwriters Annie Lennox and Melissa Etheridge, directors David Lynch and Harold Ramis, choreographer Mark Morris, author Jonathan Safran Foer, playwright John Patrick Shanley, iconoclast and Kabblah devotee Sandra Bernhard, Tony- and Emmy-winning actor John Mahoney, the Rev. Al Sharpton, leading forensic scientist Dr. Henry Lee, economist Jeffrey Sachs and crusading death penalty attorney Barry Scheck. The God Factor, Falsani's first book, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux on March 14. 2006, launching Sarah Crichton Books, the newest imprint at the venerable New York publishing house.
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