Eric Metaxas (born 1963) is an American author. He is best known for two biographies: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce. He has also written books and videos for VeggieTales.

Metaxas grew up in Danbury, Connecticut and graduated from Yale University, where he edited the Yale Record, the nations oldest college humor magazine. Metaxas lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter.

Although heavily criticized by Bonhoeffer scholars such as Victoria Barnett, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy was named 2010 ECPS Book of the Year and came out on numerous 2010 "Best of the Year" lists. Metaxas was the 2011 recipient of the Canterbury Medal awarded by the Becket Fund for Religious Freedom. He was also awarded the 2011 John C. Pollock Award for Biography by Beeson Divinity School and a 2011 Christopher Award in the Non-fiction category.

Metaxas has written over 30 children's books, including It's Time to Sleep, My Love and Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving. He's also written books and videos for VeggieTales and provided the voice of the narrator in "Esther... The Girl Who Became Queen." His biography of Wilberforce, Amazing Grace, was adapted to a 2006 film.

Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, film director, aviator and narrator. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby. He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including Unforgiven, Glory, Seven, Deep Impact, The Sum of All Fears, Bruce Almighty, Batman Begins, March of the Penguins, The Bucket List, Wanted, The Dark Knight, and RED.

Morgan Freeman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Mayme Edna (née Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber who died April 27, 1961, from cirrhosis. He has three older siblings. Freeman was sent as an infant to his paternal grandmother in Charleston, Mississippi. His family moved frequently during his childhood, living in Greenwood, Mississippi; Gary, Indiana; and finally Chicago, Illinois. Freeman made his acting debut at age 9, playing the lead role in a school play. He then attended Broad Street High School, later named Threadgill Elementary School, in Mississippi. At age 12, he won a statewide drama competition, and while still at Broad Street High School, he performed in a radio show based in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1955, he graduated from Broad Street, but turned down a partial drama scholarship from Jackson State University, opting instead to work as a mechanic in the United States Air Force.