Wm. Paul
Young

Biography

The eldest of four, born in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada, the majority of his 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. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult and now enjoys the “wastefulness of grace” with his family in the Pacific Northwest.

Paul Young has always been a writer, whether songs, poetry, short stories or newsletters; never for public consumption but for friends and family. He is the author of Lies We Believe About God and the New York Times bestsellers The Shack, Cross Roads, and Eve.