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John Bunyan
John Bunyan English minister and author John Bunyan, pencil drawing on vellum by Robert White; in the British Museum.

John Bunyan

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Professor of English Language and Literature, King's College, University of London, 1968–81. Author of John Bunyan and others; editor of Oxford Bunyan.
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John Bunyan (born November 1628, Elstow, Bedfordshire, England—died August 31, 1688, London) was a celebrated English minister and preacher, author of The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678), the book that was the most characteristic expression of the Puritan religious outlook. His other works include doctrinal and controversial writings; a spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding (1666); and the allegory The Holy War (1682). Bunyan, the son of a brazier, or traveling tinker, was brought up “among a multitude of...

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