The Shack about the author

     
                  


     To start off my year of reading, I choose to read The Shack by:  Paul Young. It seems to have a creepy appeal to it and a unique title picture on the front which made me curious to read this book. I was also a bit curious to read this because I had heard good reviews for this book by friends.
     

      I did some research about the author because I was curious on how he came to the conclusion of this topic for his story. Paul Young was born a Canadian and raised among a Stone Age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of what was New Guinea. He suffered a great loss when he was a child as well as a young adult . He now enjoys "wastefulness of grace" with his family in the Pacific Northwest. He had originally wrote The Shack for his six kids and his close friends but his friends urged him to get it published. Young was turned down by 26 publishers but eventually it was published by a new company called Windblown Media in 2007.