Biographers Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom will be honored by Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School as winners of the 2012 John Pollock
Award for Christian Biography for their book “Clouds of Witnesses: Christian Voices From Asia and Africa.”
They will receive the award April 3 at 11 a.m. in Samford’s Hodges Chapel. Noll will speak at the service in conjunction with Beeson’s World Christianity Focus Week.
The book, published by IVP Books, tells the life stories of 17 Christian leaders from Asia and Africa. Subjects include Ugandan martyr Janani Luwum, Indian mystic Sundar Singh and Ignatius Cardinal Kung of China.
Noll is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.
Nystrom, author of more than 75 books, is a freelance writer based in Chicago.
This marks the first time since it was established in 2001 that the Pollock Award has recognized a book that is about more than one person or was written by more than one person.
The award honors Christian biographer John C. Pollock, a British writer whose more than 30 books on religion include “The Billy Graham Story.”
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