"Born in 1919 as the beneficiary of robber baron wealth, Paul Moore Jr. seemed destined for a life of comfortable privilege in New York's upper class. But a religious awakening during adolescence led him down a very different path, a path of service: first as a Marine Corps war hero and then as a young Episcopal priest working alongside his wife, Jenny - daughter of painter Margarett Sargent - with the urban poor of postwar America. Later, as a bishop, Moore, who counted luminaries such as Dorothy Day, Thurgood Marshall, and John F. Kennedy among his circle, displayed a commitment to fighting economic and racial injustice that reverberated throughout the highest circles of the American political and economic elite." "The Bishop's Daughter is the story of this visionary man's rise to prominence and the story of Honor, the eldest of his nine children, and her coming-of-age as a poet in New York's literary scene. It is also a chronicle of her turbulent relationship with a father who struggled privately with his sexuality while she openly explored hers, and a searching account of the consequences of sexual secrets."--BOOK JACKET.