Jerry B. Jenkins

Jerry B. Jenkins is a novelist and biographer whose books usually feature evangelical Christians as protagonists. His output has included romantic mysteries and children's adventures, but he is best known as co-author of the "Left Behind" series of books with Tim LaHaye. His date of birth is given as 23 September 1949 in Kalamazoo, MI. He and his wife Dianna have been married for more than 33 years and have three sons and three grandsons.

Jenkins was editor of Moody Magazine and later vice president for publishing for the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. That conservative Christian school and publisher now lists him as "writer-at-large," although his vastly successful Left Behind series was published by Tyndale House, also a conservative Christian publishing house. He is the author of more than 150 books, including several children's series and a number of as-told-to biographies, especially focusing on sports fugures. He has written books on Hank Aaron, Brett Butler, Bill Gaither, Orel Hershiser, Luis Palau, Walter Payton, Nolan Ryan, and Sammy Tippit among many others.

Jerry Jenkins also helped Dr. Billy Graham with his memoirs, Just As I Am, which was one of several of his books to become a New York Times bestseller. Beginning in 1993, Jerry spent 13 months assisting Dr. Graham with his autobiography.

Jenkins and co-author Tim LaHaye were profiled in a May 24, 2004 cover story in Newsweek magazine entitled "The New Prophets of Revelation." LaHaye, also associated with Moody Bible Institute, handles the theological under-pinnings of his end-of-the-world series, while Jenkins handles the story-telling.

Jenkins and LaHaye were ranked 9th in Amazon.com's 10th Anniversary Hall of Fame authors, a ranking of authors who have written or coauthored the largest numbers of books sold at Amazon.com in the 10 years since they opened on July 16, 1995.

Jenkins homepage