Philip Yancey is the best-selling author of books such as Disappointment with God, Where Is God When It Hurts? The Jesus I Never Knew, What's So Amazing About Grace?, and Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? He recently released his memoir, Where the Light Fell.
Yancey's books have garnered thirteen Gold Medallion Awards from Christian publishers and booksellers. He currently has more than fifteen million books in print, published in over forty languages worldwide. Yancey worked as a journalist in Chicago for some twenty years, editing the youth magazine Campus Life while also writing for a wide variety of magazines including Reader's Digest, Saturday Evening Post, National Wildlife, and Christianity Today.
In 1992 he and his wife, Janet, moved to the foothills of Colorado where they live now.