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Susan May Warren
This is a list of authors of Christian fiction. Allegory Amish Biblical Contemporary Suspense/thriller Historical Novels Fiction for children Literary Other See also * Christian novel * List of Christian novels * Christy Award References {{reflist Contemporary Christian Authors: Lives and Works By Janice DeLong, Rachel E. Schwedt Christian Fiction: A Guide to the Genre By John Mort List Christian novelists Christian fiction A Christian novel is a Christian literary novel which features Christian media genre conventions. The tradition of Christian fiction Christian novels are works of imaginative literature drawing on Christian themes, theology, and social norms. T ... Fiction authors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Fiction
A Christian novel is a Christian literary novel which features Christian media genre conventions. The tradition of Christian fiction Christian novels are works of imaginative literature drawing on Christian themes, theology, and social norms. The European Christian literary tradition dates back centuries, and draws on past Christian allegorical literature, such as Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy'' and John Bunyan's ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' and ''The Holy War''. Twentieth century proponents of the Christian novel in English include J.R.R. Tolkien, G. K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and Madeleine L'Engle. Aslan in Lewis' ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' allegorically represents Christ, for example, while L'Engle's '' A Live Coal in the Sea'' explicitly references the medieval allegorical poem ''Piers Plowman''. Many novels with Christian themes also fall into specific mainstream fiction genres. For example, J.R.R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings'' is viewed as mainstre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tosca Lee
Tosca Lee (born December 1, 1969) is a bestselling American author known for her historical novels and thrillers. Biography Lee was born in Roanoke, Virginia, United States to a Korean father and Euro-American mother. Her father, Professor Emeritus Sang Moon Lee, who had early aspirations of an opera career, named Tosca for his favorite Puccini opera. As a young classically trained ballerina and pianist Lee pursued an early career in dance until injuries derailed hopes of a successful career. Lee received her BA from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts in English language and literature. She also studied international economics at Oxford University. While at Smith, Lee wrote her first novel—a story of the Stonehenge people of Salisbury plain (unpublished). She began writing professionally in 1992 for ''Smart Computing Magazine'', during which time she co-authored two computer books. In the 1990s, Lee held two pageant titles, Mrs. Nebraska America 1996 and Mrs. Nebr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Jones Gunn
Robin Jones Gunn is the best-selling, award-winning Christian author of over 100 books, including the Christy Miller and Sierra Jensen series for teen girls as well as the Glenbrooke series and the Sisterchicks series. Robin's non-fiction titles are "Praying For Your Future Husband", "Spoken For" and "Victim of Grace". Her books have sold over 5.5 million copies worldwide. She is best known for the characters in the Christy Miller series that now continue in '"Christy &Todd: The College Years", "Christy & Todd: The Married Years", "Christy & Todd: The Baby Years" and the "Katie Weldon" series. In 2007 she received the Christy Award for her novel ''"Sisterchicks in Gondolas"''. In November 2016, a television film adaptation of the first two novels in her Christmas series, ''"Finding Father Christmas''" and ''"Engaging Father Christmas''", was broadcast on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, as ''Finding Father Christmas'', starring Erin Krakow and Niall Matter. At the time of broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lori Copeland
Lori Copeland (born June 12) is an American author of over 95 novels. Biography Lori Copeland had a relatively late start in writing, breaking into publishing in 1982 when she was forty years old. Over the next dozen years, Copeland's romance novels achieved much success, as was evidenced by her winning the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, The Holt Medallion, and Waldenbooks' Best Seller award. Despite her success in more mainstream romantic fiction, in 1995, Copeland decided to switch focus. Her subsequent books have been in the relatively new subgenre of Christian romance. She has also collaborated with author Angela Elwell Hunt on a series of Christian romance novels. Copeland has been inducted into the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame. She and her husband of over forty years, Lance, live in Springfield, Missouribr> They have three grown sons. Copeland and her husband are active supporters of mission work in Mali, West Africa. Bibliography Malone Family *''Darling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melody Carlson
Melody Carlson (born March 2, 1956) is an American author. She has written over 250 books for women, teens and children, including the '' Diary of a Teenage Girl'' series. Biography Carlson was born March 2, 1956 in San Francisco, California. She grew up in Springfield, Oregon and went to Springfield High School and later Lane Community College. She currently resides in Sisters, Oregon. Some of her novels are being adapted for TV and film, including ''All Summer Long'', which premiered for Hallmark Channel The Hallmark Channel is an American television channel owned by Crown Media Holdings, Inc., which in turn is owned by Hallmark Cards, Inc. The channel's programming is primarily targeted at families, and features a mix of television movies a ... in August 2019. Some of her most popular works are the '' Diary of a Teenage Girl'', the ''True Colors Series'' series, ''The Happy Camper'', and ''Christmas at Winter Hill''. She has written more than 250 books for women and te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Brown (author)
Donald Mitchell Brown, Jr. (born June 3, 1960) is an American author, attorney, and former United States Navy JAG Officer. He has published eleven military-genre novels, the best known of which is ''Treason'' (2005) in which radical Islamic clerics infiltrate the United States Navy Chaplain Corps. He has published four works of military nonfiction, including his national bestseller, '' The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II'' (2017). Brown may be best known for his work as legal counsel to convicted war criminal Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance, and his authorship of the 2019 book ''Travesty of Justice: The Shocking Prosecution of Lt. Clint Lorance.'' On November 15, 2019, President Donald Trump pardoned Lorance, and the book is considered to be a major factor in leading to that pardon. Between the release of ''Travesty of Justice'' on March 31, 2019, and Lorance's pardon on November 15, 2019, Brown made numerous national television appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terri Blackstock
Terri Blackstock (born December 7, 1957 in Belleville, Illinois) is a Christian fiction writer. Writing In 1994 Blackstock was writing for publishers such as HarperCollins, Harlequin and Silhouette, when a spiritual awakening drew her into the Christian market. Since that time, she’s written over thirty Christian titles, in addition to the thirty-two she had in the secular market. In addition to her suspense novels, she has written a number of novels in the women’s fiction genre, including ''Covenant Child,'' which was chosen as one of the first Women of Faith novels, and her “Seasons” books written with Beverly LaHaye, wife of Tim LaHaye. Blackstock asked her fans for advice on what they would title one of her books. This novel used to be one of her secular books, but it was dear to her, so she decided that she was going to rewrite it to be fitting for the Christian market. The four choices for the title were ''Pros and Cons'', ''Truth-Stained Lies'', ''Shadow in Sereni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Wolf
Joan Wolf (born 1951 in Bronx, New York) is an American writer of romance novels. Wolf grew up in the Bronx, New York. She obtained a bachelor's degree in Mercy College and Master in English and Comparative Literature in Hunter College. Bibliography Single novels * ''A Kind of Honor'', 1980 * ''A London Season'', 1980 * ''The Counterfeit Marriage'', 1980 * ''A difficult truce'', 1981 * ''The Scottish Lord'', 1981 * ''Beloved Stranger'', 1982 * ''His Lordship's Mistress'', 1982 * ''Margarita'', 1982 * ''The American Duchess'', 1982 * ''A Double Deception'', 1983 * ''Change of Heart'', 1983 * ''Lord Richard's Daughter'', 1983 * ''Summer Storm'', 1983 * ''Affair of the Heart'', 1984 * ''Fool's Masquerade'', 1984 * ''Portrait of a Love'', 1984 * ''The Rebellious Ward'', 1984 * ''A Fashionable Affair'', 1985 * ''The divided sphere'', 1985 * ''Wild Irish Rose'', 1985 * ''The Rebel and the Rose'', 1986 * ''Highland Sunset'', 1987 * ''The Deception'', 1996 * ''The Arrangement'', 1997 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brock Thoene
Bodie (born 1951) and Brock Thoene (born 1952; pronounced ''Tay-nee'') are an American husband-and-wife duo of authors. They are the authors of more than 75 works of historical fiction. Eight of their books have won Gold Medallion Awards. Over 35 million copies of their books have been sold in more than 20 languages. Career Bodie has written articles appearing in ''The Saturday Evening Post'', '' U.S. News & World Report'', and ''The American West''. In the 1970s, she also worked as a screenwriter for John Wayne's production company Batjac Productions"Writing History With a Message". May 5, 2002. ''The Tribune''. H2. and co-wrote ''Fall Guy'' with Wayne's stunt double Charles H. Roberson. Bodie has also worked with ABC Circle Films as a writer and researcher. The couple works as a writing team with Brock as the researcher and story-line consultant and Bodie as co-author. Personal life Born in Bakersfield, California, the couple first met each other when they were three years old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodie Thoene
Bodie (born 1951) and Brock Thoene (born 1952; pronounced ''Tay-nee'') are an American husband-and-wife duo of authors. They are the authors of more than 75 works of historical fiction. Eight of their books have won Gold Medallion Awards. Over 35 million copies of their books have been sold in more than 20 languages. Career Bodie has written articles appearing in ''The Saturday Evening Post'', '' U.S. News & World Report'', and ''The American West''. In the 1970s, she also worked as a screenwriter for John Wayne's production company Batjac Productions"Writing History With a Message". May 5, 2002. ''The Tribune''. H2. and co-wrote ''Fall Guy'' with Wayne's stunt double Charles H. Roberson. Bodie has also worked with ABC Circle Films as a writer and researcher. The couple works as a writing team with Brock as the researcher and story-line consultant and Bodie as co-author. Personal life Born in Bakersfield, California, the couple first met each other when they were three years old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Tenney
Tommy Tenney (born 1956) is an American preacher and author, known for his message of "God Chasers". In his book ''The God Chasers'' (1998), Tenney relates experiences of being "in the presence of God", including one occasion when a pulpit was purportedly divinely split in two. He teaches that every Christian should pursue an intimate relationship with God, and that supernatural occurrences are an ordinary outcome of the pursuit. He has written over fifty other books and workbooks, including '' Hadassah: One Night with the King'' with Mark Andrew Olsen, which was made into a film titled "''One Night with the King''", in 2006. He is the CEO of the GodChasers.net which holds offices in Pineville (Alexandria), Louisiana. GodChasers.net operates under its parent of HDE. Background According to his biography, "Tommy Tenney is the author of the multimillion-selling ''The God Chasers'' series. He also wrote best selling books, ''GodCatchers'', ''God's Eye View'', ''God's Dream Team' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Sheldon
Charles Monroe Sheldon (February 26, 1857 – February 24, 1946) was an American Congregationalist minister and a leader of the Social Gospel movement. His novel ''In His Steps'' introduced the principle "What would Jesus do?", which articulated an approach to Christian theology that became popular at the turn of the 20th century and enjoyed a revival almost one hundred years later. The stretch of US-24 on the north side of Topeka, Kansas, between US-75 and K-4 is named the "Charles Sheldon Trafficway" in his honor. Education and ministry Charles Sheldon was born in Wellsville, New York. He was a graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover (class of 1879), and of Brown University in 1883. He pastored a church at Waterbury, Vermont, from 1886 to 1888, and in 1889 became pastor of the Central Congregational Church in Topeka, Kansas. Sheldon became an advocate of the late-nineteenth-century school of thought known as Christian Socialism. His theological outlook focused on the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
