Featured November 18, 2006

Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland magazine, published by the University of Portland, and the author of sevenbooks: The Wet Engine, Spirited Men, Leaping: Revelations & Epiphanies, Saints Passionate & Peculiar, Credo, and Two Voices (with his father, Jim Doyle).

Doyle's latest book was published in 2006 by Oregon State University Press: The Grail: a year ambling & shambling through an Oregon vineyard in pursuit of the best pinot noir in the whole wild world. It is about, well, a year in the life of Lange Winery in Dundee, Oregon. An entertaining book, with a subtitle that clearly is a candidate for the Longest Subtitle Ever Award.

Doyle's essays and poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The American Scholar, Orion, Commonweal, and The Georgia Review, among other magazines and journals, and in The Times of London, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Kansas City Star, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Ottawa Citizen, and Newsday, among other newspapers. He is a book reviewer for The Oregonian and a contributing essayist to both Eureka Street magazine and The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Australia.
 
As for awards and honors, he has three startling children, an incomprehensible and fascinating marriage, and he was named to the 1983 Newton (Massachusetts) Men's Basketball League all-star team, and that was a really tough league.

Doyle is a native of New York, was fitfully educated at the University of Notre Dame, and has been a magazine and newspaper journalist in Portland, Boston, and Chicago for more than twenty years. He and his family live in Portland, Oregon.