Authors

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was a born storyteller. Even when she was a young child living in Manchester, England, her greatest pleasure was in making up stories and acting them out, using her dolls as characters. When she was sixteen, she was brought from England to Tennessee by her fatherless, poverty-stricken family. There she started to write stories in a clod little attic room, and they eventually made her famous. She published more than fifty books, but the most beloved are Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden, and A Little Princess. She said of herself, “With the best that was in me, I have tried to write more happiness into the world.”

J. Lanier Burns (ThM and ThD, Dallas Theological Seminary; PhD, University of Texas, Dallas) is senior research professor of theology at Dallas Theological Seminary. Since 1973, he has served as the president of the Asian Christian Academy in Bangalore, India.

Matthew D. Burton (BS Business Administration, Samford University; MBA, Georgia State University) is founder and president of Narwhal Capital Management.

Aimee Byrd is a Bible study teacher, speaker, and author who also blogs about theology and the Christian life. She lives with her family in Maryland, where she is a member of New Hope Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

Carolyn Leutwiler Campbell lives in St. Louis with her husband, Bill, whom she met and married in 2011. She is pursuing a Master's degree in Educational Ministries at Covenant Theological Seminary.