Tyndale House Publishers was founded in 1962 by Kenneth N. Taylor. Concerned that his ten children were having a hard time understanding the family’s devotional reading of the old English in the King James Version of the Bible, Taylor paraphrased The Living Bible so they could hear and understand the Scriptures in everyday English.

In 1954 as he submitted the manuscript to several publishing houses, but it was rejected by all of them. Convinced that there was value in the work for more than just their own children, Taylor and his wife, Margaret, decided to use their limited savings to publish Living Letters.

In 1962, Taylor exhibited his self-published Living Letters at the Christian Booksellers convention. The following spring Billy Graham saw a copy of Living Letters and asked if he could print a special edition and offer it on the telecasts of his crusades. Half a million copies were given away through the Graham crusades.

Ken Taylor’s dream had become a reality and more – a publishing entity had been born. Tyndale House Publishers grew from a modest home into a major publishing entity that reaches every continent in the world.