Eric Metaxas is the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Bonhoeffer, and many other books, including Is Atheism Dead?, Martin Luther, Amazing Grace, and Letter to the American Church, which was made into a full length documentary by the same name. Metaxas’s latest book is Religionless Christianity: God’s Answer to Evil. He has written more than thirty children’s books, including the bestsellers Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving and It’s Time to Sleep, My Love, illustrated by Nancy Tillman. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He is the host of Socrates in the City, and the nationally syndicated Eric Metaxas Radio Show — “The Show about Everything!” — which also airs as a weekly television program on TBN. Metaxas has conducted interviews with an eclectic mix of guests including film director Ron Howard, Mel Gibson, and Morgan Freeman,  as well as such figures as Peter Thiel. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and many other publications.

In a decidedly eclectic career, Eric Metaxas has written for Veggie Tales, Chuck Colton and the New York Times, three things not ordinarily found in the same sentence.

Metaxas speaks to thousands around the U.S. and internationally each year. He was the keynote speaker at the 2012 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. an event attended by the President and First Lady, Vice President, members of Congress and other U.S. and world leaders.

He was born in New York City in 1963, on his father’s 36th birthday. He grew up in Danbury, Connecticut, attending public schools there. Following high school, he attended and graduated from Yale University. While there, he made a name for himself as editor of the Yale Record, the nation’s oldest college humor magazine. At graduation, Eric was awarded two senior prizes for his undergraduate fiction. He was also “Class Day Speaker”.

Eric lives in Manhattan, New York with his wife and daughter.