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Eric Metaxas

Biography

Eric Metaxas

Eric Metaxas is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of IF YOU CAN KEEP IT, BONHOEFFER, AMAZING GRACE and MIRACLES. His books have been translated into more than 25 languages. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The New Yorker, and Metaxas has appeared as a cultural commentator on CNN, the Fox News Channel and MSNBC. He is the host of "The Eric Metaxas Show," a nationally syndicated daily radio show. Metaxas is also the founder and host of Socrates in the City, the acclaimed series of conversations on “life, God, and other small topics,” featuring Malcolm Gladwell, Dick Cavett and Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, among many others. He is a senior fellow and lecturer at large at the King’s College in New York City, where he lives with his wife and daughter.

Eric Metaxas

Books by Eric Metaxas

Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
by Eric Metaxas - Biography, Nonfiction, Religion

On All Hallow’s Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document he hoped would spark an academic debate, but that instead ignited a conflagration that would forever destroy the world he knew. Five hundred years after Luther’s now famous Ninety-five Theses appeared, Eric Metaxas paints a startling portrait of the wild figure whose adamantine faith cracked the edifice of Western Christendom and dragged medieval Europe into the future. MARTIN LUTHER tells the searing tale of a humble man who, by bringing ugly truths to the highest seats of power, caused the explosion whose sound is still ringing in our ears.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
written by Eric Metaxas, foreword by Timothy J. Keller - Christian

From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace, a groundbreaking biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century, the man who stood up to Hitler.

A definitive, deeply moving narrative, Bonhoeffer is a story of moral courage in the face of the monstrous evil that was Nazism.

Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
by Eric Metaxas - Biography, Christian

AMAZING GRACE tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce. This accessible biography chronicles his extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer and member of Parliament.