Author: Rick Warren

Founded a church in southern California that grew from a handful of people to tens of thousands, and wrote a book structured as forty days of short readings.The Purpose Driven Life opens by telling the reader it is not about you, which is an unusual sales pitch and became one of the best-selling hardbacks in American publishing history. The framework is explicitly evangelical Christian and does not pretend otherwise.Warren gave away most of the proceeds and reversed his salary arrangement with the church. The death of his son in 2013 changed what he wrote about afterwards.