Ted Dekker

Ted Dekker is a multiple award-winning New York Times and international bestselling author of over 40 novels. His work has reached tens of millions worldwide and has been translated into numerous languages and adapted into major feature films (Thr3e and House). In 2013 NPR readers nationwide named him as one of the top suspense writers of all time.

Ted's passion is simple: to explore truth through mind-bending stories that invite readers to see the world through a different lens. The story is the shortest distance between the human heart and truth, and to this, he has devoted his life.

Dekker was born to missionaries who lived among the headhunter tribes of Indonesia. Because his parents’ work often included extended periods of time away from their children, Dekker describes his early life in a culture in which he was a stranger as both fascinating and lonely. It is this unique upbringing that forced him to rely on his own imagination to create a world in which he belonged.

After leaving Indonesia, Dekker graduated from a multicultural high school and took up permanent residence in the United States to study Philosophy and Religion. Upon earning his Bachelor’s Degree, he entered the corporate world and proceeded to climb the proverbial ladder. But his personal drive left him restless, and after many successful years, he traded corporate life for a wide range of entrepreneurial pursuits that included buying and selling businesses, healthcare services, and marketing.

In the early nineties, while visiting a friend who had just written a book, Dekker decided to pursue a long-held desire to be a novelist. Over the course of two years, he wrote two full-length novels before starting from scratch and rewriting both. Now fully enamored by the process and the stories, he realized that storytelling was in his blood, and a new obsession to explore truth through story gripped him anew.

He sold his business, moved his family to the mountains of Western Colorado, and began writing full-time on his third novel. Two years and three novels later, his first novel was published. He has been exploring Truth through stories ever since.