Eric Metaxas

Eric Metaxas was born in 1963 in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York City, to a Greek father and a German mother, and grew up in Danbury, Connecticut, in the Eastern Orthodox Church. He graduated from Yale University in 1984 with a degree in English, having edited the college humor magazine The Yale Record. He began his career writing humor and children's books, and he wrote scripts and stories for the VeggieTales video series. He became best known for his biographies: Amazing Grace (2007), about William Wilberforce and the campaign to end the British slave trade, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (2010), about the German pastor executed for his resistance to the Nazis, and Martin Luther (2017). He also founded a public conversation series in New York called Socrates in the City and hosts a nationally syndicated radio program. Other books include If You Can Keep It, about American liberty, and a memoir, Fish Out of Water. He has written more than thirty books for children.

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