Author and public speaker who first rose to fame in 2003 for the release of his New York Times bestselling book Blue Like Jazz. He has since had a number of successful books based around the narratives of the Christian faith like Searching For God Knows What and A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. At the age of 21, he left his home in Pearland, Texas and moved to Oregon, a journey which would later become the subject of his first book Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen. The book was later republished under the name Through Painted Deserts.
