Lee Strobel has a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School, and was the award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune and a spiritual skeptic until 1981. Now a strong Christian, he focuses his books on apologetic topics. His books include four Gold Medallion winners and the 2005 Christian Book of the Year (coauthored with Garry Poole). He and his wife live in Colorado.