Saint Therese of Lisieux

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, largely unknown when she died in a Carmelite convent at the age of twenty-four, became-through her posthumously published autobiography-one of the world's most influential religious figures. In Saint Thérèse of Lisieux , bestselling novelist and memoirist Kathryn Harrison, whose depictions of women have been called "powerful" ( The New York Times Book Review ) and "luminously intelligent" ( The Boston Sunday Globe ), brings to the saint's life her storytelling gift and