Exhibitions

The first volume in his autobiographical memoirs follows his childhood, his father’s suicide, his life with his widowed mother, his time at Princeton, and military service. It ends with his decision to enter into seminary.

The second volume in his autobiographical memoirs follows his time at “the other Union” – the one in New York – his early ministry, and his years at Phillips-Exeter Academy. It ends after a recounting of moving his family to Vermont and embarking on his writing career full-time.

[T]he third of four partial autobiographies written by Frederick Buechner. Published in 1991, the work considers in depth several scenes and events from the author's life, from his father’s suicide through to his time spent as a visiting professor at Wheaton College.

[T]he fourth of four partial autobiographies… the work moves between a number of vignettes from the author’s life, remembering friendships, and imagining conversations with lost family members… this final autobiographical work considers the theme of death and the afterlife, as the author recalls the passing of those nearest to him.

In The Magnificent Defeat, Frederick Buechner examines what it means to follow Christ, the lessons of Christmas and Easter, the miracles of grace, and "the magnificent defeat" of the human soul of God.

[A] collection on meditations on Christianity and faith by Frederick Buechner. Preceded by The Magnificent Defeat, it is the second in a series of sermon anthologies preached in 1959 during the author's time at the Phillips Exeter Academy.

[First delivered as the Noble lectures at Harvard University, this] presents a three-part series of reflections that probe, through the course of one day, the innermost mysteries of life. [It blends] an artist's eye for natural beauty, the true meaning of human encounters, and the significance of occurrences (momentous or seemly trivial), with a wealth of personal, literacy, biblical, and spiritual insights.

First delivered at the Lyman Beecher Lecture series at Yale Divinity School, this anthology is divided into four sections: an introductory chapter, then a chapter on each of the titular headings about the Gospel: Comedy, Tragedy, and Fairy Tale. The original lectures were given in 1976.

A Room Called Remember brings together some of Buechner's finest writings on faith, love, and the power of words in the form of essays, addresses, and sermons. Here Buechner explores autobiography as theology, offers exhilarating reflections on biblical passages, and leads us into the "room called Remember," that "still room within us all where the past lives on as part of the present, ...where with patience, with clarity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived."

In Wishful Thinking, the first book in his much-loved lexical trilogy, Frederick Buechner puts the language of God, the universe, and the human spirit under his wry linguistic microscope. In his often ironic and always keen-sighted reflections on such terms as agnostic, envy, love, and sin, he invited us to look at theses everyday words in new and enlightening ways. Freshly revised and expanded for this edition, Wishful Thinking is a "beguiling" [Time] adventure in language for the restless believer, the doubter, and all who love words.

The second volume of Buechner’s lexical trilogy contains profiles, meditations and sketches of biblical figures. He reflects upon his memories of his years at Phillips Exeter Academy, and the resulting book is illustrated with drawings by his daughter, Katherine.

With timeless insight, award-winning author Frederick Buechner introduces readers to the Jesus of the Gospel. The old, old story begins to ring new as Buechner revisits the ancient stories and shows us different aspects of the face of Jesus. The Faces of Jesus is a distinctive and warm-hearted look at this person, this God, this teacher, this wanderer, this man of suffering.