John Bunyan was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress.In addition to The Pilgrim’s Progress,Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles,many of them expanded sermons.Bunyan came from the village of Elstow,near Bed ford.
He had some schooling and at the age of sixteen joined the Parliamentary army during the first stage of the English Civil War.After three years in the army he returned to Elstow and took up the trade of tinker,which he had learned from his father.
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