Phillip Yancey

Philip Yancey is the author of twenty-five books, including The Jesus I Never Knew, What’s So Amazing About Grace?, and Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church. Yancey’s books have garnered thirteen Gold Medallion Book Awards from Christian publishers and booksellers. He currently has more than seventeen million books in print and has been published in over fifty languages worldwide.

Yancey worked as a journalist and freelance author in Chicago for some twenty years, editing the youth magazine Campus Life while also contributing to a wide variety of publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Christianity Today. He and his wife, Janet, live in the foothills of Colorado.