James W. Ure is a freelance journalist and the author of six previous books, including Leaving the Fold: Candid Conversations with Inactive Mormons, for which he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the winner of numerous writing awards and was a finalist in the Hearst Foundation National Writing Competition. A former advertising executive, he has also worked as a publicist for and the executive director of the Sundance Film Festival. In addition, he ran his own marketing firm for almost twenty years. He has written articles for the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News, as well as for national magazines.