<Tr> <Th> Dewey Decimal </Th> <Td> 972.9123063092 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> LC Class </Th> <Td> E184. C97 </Td> </Tr> <P> Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy is a 2003 book by Carlos Eire and winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction . The book is autobiographical, about the author's experiences as part of Operation Peter Pan . </P> <P> Professor Eire, who received his PhD from Yale University in 1979, specializes in the social, intellectual, religious, and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe . He has a strong focus on both the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; the history of popular piety; and the history of death . He is the author of War Against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship From Erasmus to Calvin (1986); From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth Century Spain (1995); and co-author of Jews, Christians, Muslims: An Introduction to Monotheistic Religions (1997). He has also ventured into the twentieth century and the Cuban Revolution in Waiting for Snow in Havana (2003), which won the National Book Award in Nonfiction, 2003 . </P>

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