With eight novels already in print and another four scheduled to be published in the next two years, the series' total sales have exceeded ten million copies, and the "Left Behind" Web site reportedly receives more than twenty-five thousand hits per day. "This may not be the apocalypse, but it's certainly publishing history," J. C. Furnas observed in a recent article in the journal American Scholar.
The "Left Behind" series is the brainchild of two men: the team of Jerry B. Jenkins, a successful evangelical Christian author who also does the writing for the syndicated comic strip "Gil Thorp," and Reverend Tim LaHaye, a retired Southern Baptist minister, author, and broadcaster. LaHaye first had the idea for a novel about the apocalypse back in 1981, but he is not a fiction writer. Until he met Jenkins, LaHaye had never found the right person to team with him on the project. A literary agent introduced the pair in 1992, and they immediately became friends. Soon they also agreed to become literary collaborators. California-based LaHaye creates the plots for the "Left Behind" novels based on biblical texts.
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