Jeffrey Overstreet Explained

Jeffrey Overstreet
Birth Place:	Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Genre:	Science fiction, fantasy
Notableworks:	Auralia's Colors, Through a Screen Darkly

Jeffrey Overstreet is an American novelist, film critic, and professor who resides in Shoreline, Washington.

Biography

Overstreet teaches at Seattle Pacific University. His film reviews have been published in Paste, Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Christianity Today, Risen, and Seattle Pacific University's Response magazine.^[1] His work has also been highlighted in TIME magazine.^[2] In 2007, Overstreet received the Spiritus Award at the City of the Angels Film Festival in recognition of his writing on cinema.^[3]

Critical reception

Through A Screen Darkly earned a "Starred Review" from Publishers Weekly.^[4] Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky has said of the book that it is "Inspirational... sometimes all of us forget that love for movies, that internal spark inside us that movies lit, and your book is going to remind many of us about it."^[5]

Selected bibliography

• Book: Overstreet . Jeffrey . Auralia's Colors . 2007 . Waterbrook Press . 978-1-4000-7252-1 . 1. 123955154 . English.
• Book: Overstreet . Jeffrey . Cyndere's Midnight . 2008 . WaterBrook . 978-1-4000-7253-8 . 231834319 . English. 1.
• Book: Overstreet . Jeffrey . Raven's Ladder . 2010 . WaterBrook Press . 978-1-4000-7467-9 . 779208050 . English. 1.
• Book: Overstreet . Jeffrey . Through A Screen Darkly . 2010 . ReadHowYouWant . 978-1-4596-3943-0 . 864758913 . English. 1.
• Book: Overstreet . Jeffrey . The Ale Boy's Feast . 2011 . Water Brook Press . 978-1-4000-7468-6 . 1090210170 . English. 1.

External links

• Official website
• Web site: Painting Auralia's Colors: An Interview with Jeffrey Overstreet . J. Paul . Fridenmaker . The Other Journal . February 27, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090625035137/http://theotherjournal.com/article.php?id=316 . June 25, 2009 .
• Web site: Interview: Jeffrey Overstreet, Author of Auralia's Colors . Superfast Reader . October 1, 2007.
• Web site: Critical Choices . Richard . Seven . . February 27, 2005 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120321010653/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2005/0227/cover.html . March 21, 2012.

Notes and References

1. Web site: About Jeffrey Overstreet . lookingcloser.org . June 25, 2012 . June 23, 2017.
2. The Gospel According To Spider-Man . https://web.archive.org/web/20080709001555/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,678640-3,00.html . dead . July 9, 2008 . Richard . Corliss . August 9, 2004 . TIME . June 23, 2017.
3. Web site: CT Movies Critic Lauded . Christianity Today.com . June 23, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090910160528/http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/news/2007/ctmoviescriticlauded.html . September 10, 2009.
4. Web site: Through a Screen Darkly: Looking Closer at Beauty, Truth and Evil in the Movies . Publishers Weekly . June 23, 2017.
5. Web site: "Through a Screen Darkly" - reviews and comments . lookingcloser.org . June 23, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081017182311/http://lookingcloser.org/Darkly/reviews-and-comments.htm . October 17, 2008.