Jerry B. Jenkins
Jerry B. Jenkins
Jerry Bruce Jenkinsis an American novelist and biographer. He is best known as co-author of the Left Behind series of books with Tim LaHaye. Jenkins has written over 150 books, including romance novels, mysteries, and children's adventures, as well as non-fiction. His works usually feature evangelical Christians as protagonists...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 September 1949
CountryUnited States of America
real book people
I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.
book writing years
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.
book writing poetry-is
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
sports stars book
While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.
book done smashing
Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.
american-novelist
Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.
american-novelist people
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.
american-novelist characters dramatic gets zone
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
imminent people sensitive soon
It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers.
american-novelist cover fairly form notebook passages sends tim
Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.
american-novelist behind believe left less soon
Actually SOON has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
death people scared
People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.
american-novelist carry fiction good larger novel realness special true
Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
american-novelist talks
He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.