Jerry B. Jenkins is a writer for the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago and the author of more than 150 books, including the best-selling Left Behind series. He is also the former editor of Moody Magazine, and his writing has appeared in Reader's Digest, Parade, Guideposts, and dozens of Christian periodicals. Jenkins owns Jenkins Entertainment, a filmmaking company in Los Angeles, which produced the critically-acclaimed movie Hometown Legend, based on his book of the same name. Jenkins also owns the Christian Writers Guild, which trains professional Christian writers. The Guild is steadily expanding its services to include a writers advocacy center, college credit courses, a critique… service, literary registration services, and writing contests. As a marriage and family author and speaker, Jenkins has been a frequent guest on Dr. James Dobson's Focus On the Family radio program. Jenkins is also the writer of the nationally syndicated sports story comic strip, Gil Thorp, distributed by Tribune Media Services to 60 newspapers nationwide.