About

Edward Short is the author of three acclaimed studies of Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman, Newman and his Contemporaries (Bloomsbury, 2011), Newman and his Family (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Newman and History (Gracewing, 2017).

He has also edited the first volume of Newman's Anglican Difficulties, which Ian Ker praised as a "a lively, well-researched, well-written critical edition...."

Edward Short's most recent book is What The Bells Sang: Essays and Reviews (Gracewing), which includes pieces on poets, moralists, novelists, historians and St John Henry Cardinal Newman. In 2022, Edward Short chose and introduced The Saint Mary's Book of Christian Verse (2022).

In addition to his work on Newman, Mr. Short is the author of Culture and Abortion (Gracewing, 2013), a groundbreaking study of the ways in which the barbarous practice of abortion vitiates our culture. 

He is also the author of Adventures in the Book Pages: Essays & Reviews (Gracewing, 2015), which the Catholic Herald called “wise, witty and entertaining."

Mr. Short writes for a number of periodicals, including City Journal, Catholic World Report, Literary Review, The Human Life Review, The Wall Street Journal and The New Criterion.

Mr. Short studied history and art history at Hunter College in the City University of New York, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude. He lives in New York with his wife and two children.