Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over 35 years ago when he worked in one of her Catholic Worker soup kitchens. He remained close to this inspiring and controversial woman until her death in 1980. His book confronts candidly the puzzles of her life: the Greenwich Village novelist and reporter who converted to Catholicism, the single mother who raised her child in a most unorthodox family, her devout religious conservatism coupled with her radical politics and more.
