Randy Alcorn

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Randy Alcorn is an American Christian author, teacher, and pro-life activist. He has written many novels, including Deadline, Dominion, and Safely Home, which won him a Gold Medallion award in 2003. His forthcoming book Deception is the follow-up to Deadline and Dominion and is scheduled to be released in the spring of 2007. He also writes non-fiction, most of which focuses on Christian and anti-abortion themes.

Formerly a senior pastor of Good Shepherd Community Church, he left that position after a civil court judgment was found against him, holding him liable for over eight million dollars in punitive damages to an abortion clinic in an infant rescue case. The judgment led him to quit the ministry and cease accepting royalty payments for his books in order to avoid paying money to an abortion clinic. Despite selling millions of books, he chose to live on minimum wage plus his wife's salary, and this discipline led him to a ministry focused on teaching Christians how to give joyfully and generously. It is because of this incident that some choose to view him as an extremist, though he claims not to be one. His book Deadline is said to promote abortion clinic blockades, as his 2004 book on Birth Control pills influenced pharmacists in many states to refuse birth control prescriptions, even for health reasons. ^{[citation needed]}

He and his wife Nanci have two grown daughters, Karina and Angela, who assisted him in writing the novel The Ishbane Conspiracy in 2001. He currently lives in Gresham, Oregon.