Author Timothy Egan's Pilgrimage In Search Of Faith

Author and Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Timothy Egan often delves into history with his writing. He did so in his personal life, too. Prompted by his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Egan decided to find answers by walking one of the oldest pilgrimage trails in the world, taking him from Canterbury to Rome and a hopeful audience with the pope. KMUW's Beth Golay spoke with Egan about his new book, "A Pilgrimage to Eternity" -- a personal journey he's been reluctant to tell before now. Egan will be in Wichita on Thursday, October 24 for a 6 o'clock book talk at Watermark Books. Beth Golay: You are known for your creative nonfiction, your book about the Dust Bowl--The Worst Hard Time. This, too, is a work of nonfiction. The title is "A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of Faith." So even though this is creative nonfiction, it's a bit of a departure because it's personal. So why did you decide to go on this pilgrimage? What was going