10 Great Souls I Want to Meet in Heaven

Author: S. Michael Wilcox
Published: 2012
Genre: LDS Non-fiction
Rating: 4

Summary
In 10 Great Souls I Want to Meet in Heaven, author S. Michael Wilcox profiles the lives of his best friends in history--ten individuals who have tutored his soul as well as his mind and whom he wants to meet in the hereafter. The list includes Saint Patrick, the slave who was not Irish; Saint Francis of Assisi, the son of a wealthy Italian merchant who became a Catholic friar; Joan of Arc, a French peasant who became a national heroine; Mencius, a Chinese philosopher; Khadija and Aisha, wives of and helpmeets to the prophet Mohammad; Siddhartha, who became the Buddha; Charles Darwin, the English scientist and naturalist; Sir Ernest Shackleton, who spend much of his life as a polar explorer; George MacDonald, the Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister who inspired, among others, C.S. Lewis; and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the prominent English poet, whose love for her husband, Robert Browning, and its reciprocation, are the stuff of legend.

Review
An interesting collection of people from history. The author inspired me to want to study more about several of his "friends" from the past. This is an easy book to read a chapter at a time, since each is a stand alone discussion about one particular individual. Well worth the time--especially as a springboard to further study.