Priestdaddy: A Memoir

Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction · 2017 · Shortlist

Riverhead BooksMay 2, 2017biography-memoir nonfictionISBN 9780399573262

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction	2017	Shortlist

About This Book

Patricia Lockwood's comic memoir recounts moving back in with her Catholic priest father (a rare married priest) and finds the sacred, absurd, and moving in domestic life. Shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize.

About the Author

Patricia LockwoodAmerican

Patricia Lockwood is an American poet and novelist born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1982. Her memoir Priestdaddy (2017) won the Thurber Prize for American Humor and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. No One Is Talking About This (2021) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 and the Women's Prize for Fiction. Read more →