John Bunyan

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church through prose as accessible and concise as it is personal and engaging.

The author of The Pilgrim's Progress, one of the most influential books in English literature, had little formal education . . . Bunyan experienced his first sorrow in adolescence, when both his mother and sister died.  It wasn't his last.  Revolutions and wars were all around him, and he was jailed twice for preaching the Gospel.  Yet amidst repeated imprisonments, civil war, and violent persecution, Bunyan crafted The Pilgrim's Progress . . . Bunyan became a public figure, a captivating speaker, and above all, a man known for his unrelenting trust in God.