Book of Her Life

Kieran Kavanaugh O.C.D. and Otilio Rodriguez O.C.D. are translators of The Collected Works of Saint Teresa of Avila and The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross, both published by the Institute of Carmelite Studies.Jodi Bilinkoff is Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and author of Related Lives: Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450-1750 (2005) and The Avila of Saint Teresa: Religious Reform in a Sixteenth Century City (1989), both published by Cornell University Press.

The Hackett edition of Teresa of Avila's spiritual autobiography will prove especially valuable to students of Early Modern Spain, the history of Christian spirituality, and classic women writers. --Theological Book Review