The Left Behind Collection: All 12 Books (416 page)

Jerry B. Jenkins,
former vice president for publishing at Moody Bible Institute of Chicago and currently chairman of the board of trustees, is the author of more than 175 books, including the best-selling Left Behind series. Twenty of his books have reached the
New York Times
Best Sellers List (seven in the number-one spot) and have also appeared on the
USA Today
,
Publishers Weekly
, and
Wall Street Journal
best-seller lists.
Desecration
, book nine in the Left Behind series, was the best-selling book in the world in 2001. His books have sold nearly 70 million copies.

Also the former editor of
Moody
magazine, his writing has appeared in
Time
,
Reader’s Digest
,
Parade
,
Guideposts
,
Christianity Today
, and dozens of other periodicals. He was featured on the cover of
Newsweek
magazine in 2004.

His nonfiction books include as-told-to biographies with Hank Aaron, Bill Gaither, Orel Hershiser, Luis Palau, Joe Gibbs, Walter Payton, and Nolan Ryan among many others. The Hershiser and Ryan books reached the
New York Times
Best Sellers List.

Jenkins assisted Dr. Billy Graham with his autobiography,
Just As I Am
, also a
New York Times
best seller. Jerry spent 13 months working with Dr. Graham, which he considers the privilege of a lifetime.

Jerry owns Jenkins Entertainment, a filmmaking company in Los Angeles, which produced the critically acclaimed movie
Midnight Clear
, based on his book of the same name. See
www.Jenkins-Entertainment.com
.

Jerry Jenkins also owns the Christian Writers Guild, which aims to train tomorrow’s professional Christian writers. Under Jerry’s leadership, the guild has expanded to include college-credit courses, a critique service, literary registration services, and writing contests, as well as an annual conference. See
www.ChristianWritersGuild.com
.

As a marriage-and-family author, Jerry has been a frequent guest on Dr. James Dobson’s
Focus on the Family
radio program and is a sought-after speaker and humorist. See
www.AmbassadorSpeakers.com
.

Jerry has been awarded four honorary doctorates. He and his wife, Dianna, have three grown sons and six grandchildren.

Check out Jerry’s blog at
http://jerryjenkins.blogspot.com
.

Dr. Tim LaHaye
(
www.timlahaye.com
), who conceived and created the idea of fictionalizing an account of the Rapture and the Tribulation, is a noted author, minister, and nationally recognized speaker on Bible prophecy. He is the founder of both Tim LaHaye Ministries and The PreTrib Research Center.

Dr. LaHaye speaks at many of the major Bible prophecy conferences in the U.S. and Canada, where his prophecy books are very popular.

Dr. LaHaye earned a doctor of ministry degree from Western Theological Seminary and received an honorary doctor of literature degree from Liberty University. For 25 years he pastored one of the nation’s outstanding churches in San Diego, which grew to three locations. During that time he founded two accredited Christian high schools, a Christian school system of ten schools, and San Diego Christian College (formerly known as Christian Heritage College).

There are over 59 million copies of Dr. LaHaye’s 50 nonfiction books, some of which have been published in over 37 languages. He has written books on a wide variety of subjects, such as family life, temperaments, and Bible prophecy. His fiction works include the Left Behind series and the Jesus Chronicles, written with Jerry B. Jenkins. LaHaye’s other fiction series of prophetic novels consist of the Babylon Rising series and The End series. Dr. LaHaye is the father of four grown children, grandfather of nine, and great-grandfather of eleven.

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