The American Pope: A Discussion with Daniel Burke and Scott Detrow

The Book Stall, in partnership with WBEZ, welcomes to the store Daniel Burke and Scott Detrow for a discussion featuring their new book, American Pope: Leo XIV's Road from the South Side of Chicago to Vatican City. From the co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered and NPR’s Senior Editor of Religion and Spirituality, a deeply reported, revelatory biography of Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, that offers rare and exciting new insight into the life and times of the man who would come to lead the Catholic Church. Enlightening, engrossing, and undeniably human, American Pope is the key to understanding one of the most consequential figures of our time.

Daniel Burke is the Senior Editor of Religion & Spirituality at NPR. His writing on religion has won numerous awards, including from the Society for Features Journalism, the National Headliner Award Foundation, the Religion News Association, and the American Academy of Religion. Burke has made numerous appearances on CNN and NPR, and his work has been published in dozens of outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post. He holds degrees in religion from Georgetown University and Columbia University.

Scott Detrow cohosts NPR's All Things Considered, which he broadcast from St. Peter's Square during the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV. He previously worked as NPR's White House correspondent, among other beats, and hosted The NPR Politics Podcast. Scott is a graduate of Fordham University and the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in Washington, D.C.