Karen Kingsbury (born June 8, 1963) is an American Christian novelist. As a child of 5, she already loved writing, and knew she wanted to become a novelist by her teens, as her father Ted was a huge influence and supporter of her writing career. She didn’t start writing novels until Where Yesterday Lives (1998). And then after reading a book by Francine Rivers, she felt called to write Christian fiction. She was a writer for the Los Angeles Times as a sports author.