Thomas H. Olbricht was born in Thayer, Missouri. He was educated at Harding, Northern Illinois, Iowa and Harvard Divinity School. He taught at Iowa, Harding, Dubuque, Penn State and Pepperdine universities. He has published or helped edit twenty-five books of autobiography, Biblical studies, church history and rhetoric. Olbricht and Gail Hopkins hold membership in many of the same theological associations. Tom and Dorothy live in a retirement community in Exeter, New Hampshire.