Donald Miller grew up in Houston, Texas, where he left at the age of twenty-one to cross the country with a friend in a Volkswagen van. The stuff of that trip would later become his first book, Through Painted Deserts. A couple years after releasing Through Painted Deserts, Don released Blue Like Jazz, a spiritual memoir that served as a voice for millions of believers marginalized by the commercialization of Christianity. Blue would slowly become a bestseller, and spend more than forty-weeks on the New York Times Bestsellers list. Don’s newest book is called A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. Don operated his own publishing company for several years before branching out as a writer. He is the Founder of The Mentoring Project, and also serves on the Presidential Task Force on Fatherhood and Healthy Families. He lives and works in Portland, Oregon.