Eric Metaxas is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and radio host whose books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He is best known for his acclaimed biographies, including Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy — named a Book of the Year by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association — and Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, the companion book to the 2006 film. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the New Yorker.
Raised in New York in a Greek Orthodox family, Metaxas has spent his career exploring faith, courage, and conviction in public life, and he hosts a nationally syndicated radio program. For Ascension, he contributed to Disorientation: How to Go to College Without Losing Your Mind, a collection of essays by leading Christian thinkers preparing students to engage the ideologies they will meet on campus.
