In 2009, she was listed at 8th position in the list of top ten Christian authors. The year 2007 saw her receive the Christy Award for contemporary novel series.Ī good number of her novels have been highly rated catapulting her to the top positions in platforms such as the New York Times, USA Today and ECPA Best Seller lists. In 2003, her university alma mater awarded her with the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Several awards have been accorded to her based on her continual great work. Some of her work has been adapted into movies and she has continued to endear her fans with her style of writing. Mrs Lewis has most of her writings in the form of book series. This is inspired by her affiliation to the Assemblies of God community where she attended church while growing up and still does. Many of Lewis’s books reflect life as per the Anabaptist heritage and Amish, the old church order. She then married David Lewis and together they had three children and settled in Colorado.īoth Lewis and her husband are musicians and great fans of fiction books.

Beverly Lewis later attended Evangel University for her higher education. Later in life, Lewis progressed to become a schoolteacher and a well accomplished musician. Well, right into her adult years, Lewis confesses that the three things piano playing, reading and writing count as the best three entities in her list of favorite things. By the time she was nine years old, she could write poetry as well as short stories. Truly the talented child, Lewis was able to play the piano by the age of five and created lyrics to the piano piece ‘little fingers’. Lancaster, Pennsylvania is her place of birth which is found right in the middle of Amish Country. Biography of Lewisīorn as Beverly Marie Jones, Lewis is a self-professed christian, born and raised in a Christian family. She also writes children’s stories and has more than eighty books attributed to her authorship. However, only a handful of authors have made a name for themselves in the writing of Christian fiction. Many authors have established themselves well in this genre covering fiction in the areas of crime, romance and science among many others. Fiction is one of the most interesting genres in the literary world because even the unreal can be used to create amazing stories.

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