James P. MacGuire

James P. MacGuire's latest book, OUT OF TIME: SURVIVING THE SIXTIES, was published in June of 2020. His prior books include the collection WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS: A FATHER'S POEMS AND PRAYERS (2018), and REAL LACE REVISITED: INSIDE THE HIDDEN WORLD OF AMERICA'S IRISH ARISTOCRACY (2017).

OUT OF TIME: SURVIVING THE SIXTIES is MacGuire's poignant memoir of a decade that remains iconic in the American imagination, whether in the turbulent summer of 2020, or any season, for Baby Boomers and all the generations after. Set in a still bucolic Long Island, at a boarding school on Narragansett Bay, in San Francisco, Wyoming, Woodstock, Washington and Minnesota Outward Bound, the book chronicles a coming of age filled with uncertainty, intensity, increasing violence, and the search for drugs, sex, rock 'n roll, and God.

Jamie MacGuire was born on March 4th, 1952 in New York City. He grew up on Long Island, the fifth of six boys. He attended Portsmouth Abbey School in Rhode Island with such other well-known writers as Christopher Buckley, E.J. Dionne, Michael Garvey and Christopher Ogden. MacGuire took his B.A. and M.A. at Johns Hopkins in The Writing Seminars and did additional graduate research on 19th and 20th century literature in the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral dissertation is on "John Millington Synge and the Aran Islands."

From 1977 to 1979 MacGuire was country program director of Catholic Relief Services in Burundi, supervising a variety of maternal-child health and agricultural development projects. Returning to New York, in 1980 MacGuire joined Time Inc. and later worked at such other media companies as Macmillan, The Health Network, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He is presently the Managing Editor/ US for the Catholic Herald.

James P. MacGuire's books include:

London and the English Countryside (1989)

Campion (with Christopher Buckley,1990)

Beyond Partisan Politics (1992)

Miracle in East Harlem: The Fight for Choice in Public Education (with Seymour Fliegel, 1993)

Dusk on Lake Tanganyika (1999)

The Rockaway Hunting Club at 125 (with Benjamin Allison, 2004)

Newman and the Intellectual Tradition (2013)

The Catholic Shakespeare? (2013)

Modern Science/ Ancient Faith (2013)

The Catholic William F. Buckley Jr. (2014)

Catholicism and the American Experience (2014)

Real Lace Revisited (2017)

Worlds Within Worlds: A Father's Poems and Prayers (2018)

Out of Time: Surviving the Sixties (2020)

Personal:

James MacGuire married Alane (“Lanie”) Sauder, a Jungian psychoanalyst, in 1990. She died in March of 2015. He has two beloved sons, Pierce Patterson MacGuire and Rhoads Walker MacGuire. He lives in New York with his longtime companion, the sublime Michelle Coppedge.

Among his many interests are travel, music, the theatre, movies and sports, especially horse racing and tennis.

MacGuire has served on the boards of many not for profit organizations including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, Stage Plays Theatre Company, Student Sponsor Partners and The Man O' War Project and AFGRO. He has been a playwright-in-residence at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, a senior fellow at the Center for Educational Innovation at the Manhattan Institute and the Center for Social Thought. He was the founding director of the Portsmouth Institute and is a member of the International Lawn Tennis Club.

James MacGuire lives in New York with his companion, the sublime Michelle Coppedge.