Philip Yancey is an American author who writes primarily about spiritual issues. His books have sold more than fifteen million copies in English and have been translated into forty languages. He is published by Hachette, HarperCollins Christian Publishing, InterVarsity Press, and Penguin Random House.

After high school, he attended college in South Carolina. He went on to earn graduate degrees in Communications and English from Wheaton College Graduate School and the University of Chicago.
While living in the Chicago, Illinois suburbs, in 1971 Yancey joined the staff of Campus Life magazine—a publication directed towards high school and college students—where he served as editor for eight years. For three decades, Yancey contributed as an editor-at-large, for Christianity Today, and also wrote articles for publications including Reader's Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, Publishers Weekly, The Atlantic, Chicago Magazine, Christian Century, and National Wildlife.
As a journalist, he has interviewed two U. S. presidents, and other notables such as Bono, Billy Graham, and the authors Annie Dillard, John Updike, and Henri Nouwen. Former President Jimmy Carter has called Yancey "my favorite modern author."
Yancey lives in Colorado, working as a freelance writer. Travelling widely for speaking engagements, he has visited over 85 countries. (+info)

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