dawneden.com
The online HQ of author Dawn Eden
Looking for my book The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On? It's available from Amazon.com (in paperback or Kindle), Barnes & Noble's bn.com (in paperback or Nook), and other retailers.
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I am the author of The Thrill of the Chaste and the upcoming My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints (due in April 2012 from Ave Maria Press).
Soon, I will be updating this site with information on My Peace I Give You. In the meantime, if you would like to know more about the book, you can read the interview I gave to Catholic News Agency about My Peace I Give You and
visit my blog The Dawn Patrol for the latest news.
A bit more about me:
I was born to a Jewish family in New York City. When I was in high school, I lost my faith and became an agnostic. During my 20s, in the 1990s, I worked as a rock journalist, interviewing recording artists for music magazines and writing liner notes for CD reissues. From there, I went to work for New York City tabloids the New York Post (where I penned a headline that won the 2004 New York State Associated Press Award) and the Daily News.
I underwent a dramatic conversion to Christianity at age 31, which led me to enter the Catholic Church. With my new faith came a change in lifestyle as I discovered the truth and beauty of Church teachings on chastity. That led to the publication in December 2006 of my first book, describing my personal transformation in the hope of helping others make positive changes in their own lives: The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On. Now in its eleventh printing, The Thrill has also been published in Spanish, Polish, and Chinese.
I have been featured on NBC's "Today" show and EWTN's "Life on the Rock," and have given over 100 talks to young-adult groups and college students, from UC Berkeley to Notre Dame, Georgetown, Yale, and Dartmouth, as well as in England, Ireland, Australia, Poland, and lots of places in between.
I live in Washington, D.C., where I am pursuing a licentiate in sacred theology, having earned an M.A. in May 2010 from Dominican House of Studies.
Upcoming speaking dates:
Currently I am finalizing plans for talks this fall in Washington, D.C; Chihuahua, Mexico; and Philadelphia, and for two days of speaking appearances in Ohio in January 2012. Watch this space for details as soon as the talks are confirmed.
This page was last updated September 27, 2011.