Lloyd C. Douglas

Emerging from a Midwestern upbringing in Indiana, he completed studies at Wittenberg College and entered the Lutheran ministry before later serving congregations in Ohio, Michigan, Washington, D.C., and Canada. Though he spent decades in pastoral work, his literary breakthrough arrived at age fifty with the novel that became a bestseller and was later filmed twice, the first in the mid-1930s and a… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources