Jerry B. Jenkins

Jerry B. Jenkins is the writer of the Left Behind series. He is the author of more than one hundred books, of which several have reached the New York Times best-seller list. Former vice president for publishing for the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, he also served many years as editor of Moody magazine and is now Moody's writer-at-large. His writing has appeared in publications as varied as Reader’s Digest, Parade, in-flight magazines, and many Christian periodicals. He has written books in four genres: biography, marriage and family, fiction for children, and fiction for adults. Jenkins’s biographies include books with Hank Aaron, Bill Gaither, Luis Palau, Walter Payton, Orel Hershiser, Nolan Ryan, Brett Butler, and Billy Graham, among many others. More than five of his apocalyptic novel—Left Behind, Tribulation Force, Nicolae, Soul Harvest, and Apollyon—have appeared on the Christian Booksellers Association’s best-selling fiction list and the Publishers Weekly religion best-sellers list. Left Behind was nominated for Novel of the Year by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association in both 1997 and 1998. As a marriage and family author and speaker, Jenkins has been a frequent guest on Dr. James Dobson’sFocus on the Family radio program. Jerry is also the writer of the nationally syndicated sports story comic strip Gil Thorp, distributed to newspapers across the United States by Tribune Media Services. Jerry and his wife, Dianna live in Colorado.

adapted from the back of The Vanishings