Phyllis Tickle, a best-selling author on spirituality, dies at 81
Phyllis Tickle, a best-selling author on American faith and spirituality, died September 22 under hospice care at her farm in Lucy, Tennessee. She was 81.
In May Tickle had announced that she had stage IV lung cancer.
Tickle began to achieve prominence when she was recruited by Publishers Weekly in the early 1990s to start its religion division. Then her first big book, Re-Discovering the Sacred: Spirituality in America, came out in 1995, followed two years later by God-Talk in America.
