Joseph Lewis Heil

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Joseph Lewis Heil was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was educated at Marquette University High School and received his bachelor of arts degree in the Great Books Program from the University of Notre Dame.
Inspired by family stories, his parents and grandparents told, his love of history and literature, his observations of trends in American society, politics and culture, he began writing his first novel, "The War Less Civil," in the late 1990s. After a decade he submitted the novel to the Faulkner-Wisdom Novel Competition where it was named a finalist in 2011.
Heil's second historical novel, "Judas In Jerusalem" was published in 2018.
His third book, "The Universal Heart & Other Essays, Stories, Vignettes and Poems" was published
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Judas In Jerusalem

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THE WAR LESS CIVIL: An Amer...

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