In a decidedly eclectic career Eric Metaxas has worked as a writer for VeggieTales, Chuck Colson, and The New York Times — three things not usually mentioned in the same sentence.
He is most recently the author of the runaway bestseller, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God (but were afraid to ask), which Dick Cavett has called "stylish and entertaining," and which NCS's own Mac McNally has called "clever and unswerving." To order your ten copies before supplies run out, please click here immediately. Not ready to make that commitment yet, but want to read more effusive blurbs? Please visit ericmetaxas.com.
Eric grew up in Danbury, Connecticut, and attended Yale University, where he edited the Yale Record, the nation's oldest college humor magazine. At graduation, Eric delivered the Class History, a satirical address that is a Yale tradition, and was awarded several senior prizes for his undergraduate writing.
Since then, Eric's book reviews, movie reviews, and humorous essays have appeared in the NYTimes, the Atlantic Monthly, Christianity Today, National Review, Regeneration Quarterly, and Books&Culture, among other places. Woody Allen has called Eric's NYTimes humor pieces "quite funny." The novelist Mark Helprin has compared Metaxas's Ripley's Believe It Or Not book parody to the Far Side comics, calling Metaxas "the true heir to Gary Larson."
Eric's credits for VeggieTales include writing the videoscript for Omelet (a Veggie parody of Hamlet); several bestselling VeggieBooks such as God Made You Special (over 450,000 sold to date), Even Fishslappers Deserve a Second Chance, and Jonah and the Pirates Who Usually Don't Do Anything; the as-yet-to-be produced Gourd of the Baskervilles video, and The Boy Who Cried Waffle. Eric also provided the voice of the narrator on Esther.
Metaxas's own children's books and videos have been narrated by such actors as Mel Gibson (David & Goliath), Robin Williams, Sir John Gielgud, Danny Glover, Sigourney Weaver, John Candy, Michael Caine, Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Jodie Foster, Emma Thompson, and Raul Julia. These videos have won numerous Parent's Choice Awards and three Grammy Award nominations for Best Children's Recording; they all aired on Showtime and as popular audio programs on NPR's Rabbit Ears Radio, hosted by Mel Gibson and Meg Ryan, whose radio scripts Eric has also written. Parenting magazine and others have called Metaxas "the unsung hero" of Rabbit Ears and a "children's author nonpareil." Eric's other children's books include The Bible ABC (Tommy Nelson); the best-selling and Angel Award-winning Prince of Egypt A to Z, a tie-in to the Dreamworks film; and Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving, which Amazon.com honored with their "#1 Bestseller Award" for Thanksgiving 1999.
Eric is the director and host of Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life, a monthly event of "entertaining and thought-provoking" discussions on life, God, and other small topics that features such speakers as Os Guinness, Sir John Polkinghorne, and Peter Kreeft. If you are ready to order those books now, please click here.
