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(born September 23, 1949 in Kalamazoo, Michigan) is an American novelist and biographer. Best known as co-author of the i series of books with Tim LaHaye, Jenkins has written over 150 books, including romance novels, mysteries, and children's adventures, as well as non-fiction. His works usually feature evangelical Christians as protagonists. In 2005, Jenkins and LaHaye ranked 9th in Amazon.com's 10th Anniversary Hall of Fame authors ranked according to the largest numbers of books sold at Amazon.com in the 10 years since it opened on July 16, 1995.

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Jenkins has authored more that 150 books, 16 of which have reached the New York Times bestseller list. His writings have appeared in many periodicals, including Reader's Digest, Parade, and Guideposts. He is a "writer-at-large" for Moody Bible Institute. He had previously worked as Editor of i

He has written "as-told-to" biographies of Hank Aaron, Brett Butler, Bill Gaither, Orel Hershiser, Luis Palau, Walter Payton, Nolan Ryan, Sammy Tippit, and others. Over a period of 13 months, he assisted Dr. Billy Graham with his 1997 autobiography, i

From 1996 to 2004, Jenkins was writer of the sports-oriented comic strip i He had been handpicked by creator Jack Berrill to succeed him after the latter's death. Many of the comic strip stories were written (but uncredited) by his son, Chad Jenkins, an assistant baseball coach at Bethel College.

magazine entitled "The New Prophets of Revelation". LaHaye, also associated with Moody Bible Institute, handles the theological under-pinnings of his end-of-the-world series, while Jenkins handles the story-telling.

The i series includes 12 books which have sold over 60 million copies worldwide. The first volume is entitled i

Jenkins and LaHaye ranked 9th in Amazon.com's 10th Anniversary Hall of Fame authors, a ranking of authors who have written or coauthored the largest numbers of books sold at Amazon.com in the 10 years since it opened on July 16, 1995.

Jenkins and his wife Dianna have been married for more than 33 years and have four sons and ten grandsons.