Wm Paul
Young

Biography

The eldest of four, born May 11th, 1955, in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada, the majority of Paul’s first decade was lived with his missionary parents in the highlands of Netherlands New Guinea (West Papua), among the Dani, a technologically stone age tribal people. They became his family and as the first white child and outsider who ever spoke their language, he was granted unusual access into their culture and community. The year following his graduation from college, he met and married Kim Warren and for a time worked on staff at a large suburban church while attending seminary. Paul has always been a writer, whether songs, poetry, short stories or newsletters; never for public consumption but for friends and family. While he has extensively written for business, creating web content, business plans, white papers etc., The Shack was a story written for my six children, with no thought or intention to publish. No one is more surprised that Paul is to be considered an ‘author’.