Philip Yancey  serves as editor at Large for Christianity Today magazine. His books The Jesus I Never Knew and What's So Amazing About Grace? were national best-sellers appearing on both the Publisher's Weekly and ECPA lists. Both books also won the Gold Medallion Book of the Year Award. Yancey has written eight Gold Medallion Award-winning books, including Where Is God When it Hurts? Disappointment with God, and The Gift of Pain. He co-edited The Student Bible, which also won a Gold Medallion Award. He and his wife live in Colorado.
	What's So Amazing About Grace?
	In 1987, an IRA bomb buried Gordon Wilson and his twenty-year-old daughter beneath five feet of rubble. Gordon alone survived. And forgave. He said of the bombers, "I have lost my daughter, but I bear no grudge. . . . I shall pray, tonight and every night, that God will forgive them." His words caught the media’s ear--and out of one man’s grief, the world got a glimpse of grace. Grace is the church’s great distinctive. It’s the one thing the world cannot duplicate, and the one thing it craves above all else--for only grace can bring hope and transformation to a jaded world. In What’s So Amazing About Grace? award-winning author Philip Yancey explores grace at street level. If grace is God’s love for the undeserving, he asks, then what does it look like in action? And if Christians are its sole dispensers, then how are we doing at lavishing grace on a world that knows far more of cruelty and unforgiveness than it does of mercy? Yancey sets grace in the midst of life’s stark images, tests its mettle against horrific "ungrace." Can grace survive in the midst of such atrocities as the Nazi holocaust? Can it triumph over the brutality of the Ku Klux Klan? Should any grace at all be shown to the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed and cannibalized seventeen young men? Grace does not excuse sin, says Yancey, but it treasures the sinner. True grace is shocking, scandalous. It shakes our conventions with its insistence on getting close to sinners and touching them with mercy and hope. It forgives the unfaithful spouse, the racist, the child abuser. It loves today’s AIDS-ridden addict as much as the tax collector of Jesus’ day. In his most personal and provocative book ever, Yancey offers compelling, true portraits of grace’s life-changing power. He searches for its presence in his own life and in the church. He asks, How can Christians contend graciously with moral issues that threaten all they hold dear? And he challenges us to become living answers to a world that desperately wants to know, What’s So Amazing About Grace?

Philip Yancey is a Christian author. Fourteen million of his books have been sold worldwide, making him one of the best-selling evangelical Christian authors. Two of his books have won the ECPA's Christian Book of the Year Award: The Jesus I Never Knew in 1996 and What's So Amazing About Grace in 1998.  He is published by Zondervan Publishing.

 Biography
Philip Yancey was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1949.  Yancey's father died when Philip was one year old after his church elders suggested he go off life support in faith that God would heal him.  In his adolescence, Yancey attended two fundamentalist churches that were strongly racist.  After high school he attended Bible college, where he met his wife.  After earning graduate degrees in Communications and English from Wheaton College Graduate School and the University of Chicago, Yancey joined the staff of Campus Life Magazine in 1971 where he served as Editor for eight years.

Yancey was for a period an editor for Christianity Today magazine and is now a columnist and editor-at-large. Yancey's works include

After the Wedding (1976)
Where Is God When It Hurts? (1977) (Updated edition published in 1990, special edition in 2001)
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made (1980) - co-authored with physician Paul W. Brand
Open Windows (1982)
Insight (1982)
In His Image (1984) - co-authored with physician Paul W. Brand
Disappointment With God (1988)
I Was Just Wondering (1989) - excerpts from previous books and articles
Praying with the KGB: A Startling Report from a Shattered Empire - (1992)
Discovering God: A Devotional Journey Through the Bible (1993)
The Jesus I Never Knew (1995)
Finding God in Unexpected Places (1995) (Updated 2nd edition published in 2005)
What's So Amazing About Grace? (1997)
The Bible Jesus Read (1999)
The Gift of Pain (1997) - co-authored with physician Paul W. Brand
Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants: The Inspiring Story of a Surgeon Who Discovers Why We Hurt and What We Can Do About It (1993) - co-authored with physician Paul W. Brand
Reaching for the Invisible God (2000)
Meet the Bible: A Panorama of God's Word in 366 Daily Readings and Reflections (2000) - co-authored with Brenda Quinn
Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church (2001)
Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage (2001)
Rumors of Another World (2003)
Designer Sex (2005) - 32 page booklet
When We Hurt : Prayer, Preparation & Hope for Life's Pain (2006)
Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? (2006)