Lee Strobel earned his journalism degree from the University of Missouri and was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship to study at Yale Law School, where he received a Master of Studies in Law. He was a journalist for 14 years at the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers, winning Illinois' top honors for investigative reporting and public service journalism from United Press International. He also taught First Amendment Law at Roosevelt University. A former atheist, he served as a teaching pastor at two of America's largest churches. Married 38 years, Lee and his wife, Leslie, live in Colorado.