Ted Dekker is an American writer and bestselling author of Christian fantasy, fiction and horror novels.

Ted Dekker was born in Indonesia, to Christian missionaries, John and Helen Dekker. According to Dekker, his early years were lonely ones, having been sent to boarding school, along with his siblings.Official Site: Ted's Life Story Part 1

In his biography, Dekker claims that his happiest times were those spent climbing trees and racing through the jungle with his brother Danny while on vacation from school. After completing high school in Papua New Guinea, he moved to the United States to attend college.Official Site: Ted's Life Story Part 1 He met Lee Ann during his sophomore year. He proposed, and the couple was married a year later. He enrolled at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri, where he studied religion, creative writing and philosophy.Official Site: Ted's Life Story Part 1 He and Lee Ann, have four children -- Rachelle, JT, Kara and Chelise.Official Site: Part 2

After college he moved to California and took a job delivering medical supplies. Within three years after graduating college, he had been promoted to Director of Marketing]. He and Lee Ann were, in his words, "a highly successful American couple with one child, whom we named Rachelle, and a fat bank account." Later, along with a colleague, Dekker started his own medical supply company, Comfort Care.Official Site: Part 2

After his brother's death, he wrote his first novel, Heaven's Wager and shortly thereafter, When Heaven Weeps.Official Site: Part 2

Though his use of dark and often violent themes to portray spiritual ideals is controversial, Dekker maintains a large fan base, having sold over three million copies of his books.Publishers Weekly: Christian Bestseller Dekker Signs Two-Book Deal with Hachette

• 2008: Adam
• 2007: Skin
• 2006: House
• 2006: Saint
• 2006: Obsessed
• 2004: Black
• 2004: Red
• 2004: White
• 2003: Thr3e
• 2002: Heaven's Wager
• 2002: When Heaven Weeps
• 2002: The Thunder Of Heaven