Matthew Case grew up in Bradford, Pennsylvania. Leaving home at the age of seventeen, he traveled across the state until he ran out of money in State College, Pennsylvania, where he lives today. Matt’s next book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, will be released Fall of 2009.
Harvest House Publishers released his first book, Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance, in 2000. Two years later, after having audited classes at Portland’s Reed College, Matt wrote Blue Like Jazz, which would slowly become a New York Times Bestseller.
In 2004 Matt released Searching for God Knows What a book about how the Gospel of Jesus explains the human personality. Searching has become required reading at numerous colleges across the country. In 2005 he released Through Painted Deserts the story of he and a friends road trip across the country. Matt’s most recent project is a book about growing up without a father called To Own a Dragon.
Matt has teamed up with Steve Taylor and Ben Pearson to write the screenplay for Blue Like Jazz which will be filmed in Portland in the spring of 2008 and released thereafter.
Matt is the founder of The Belmont Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation which partners with working to recruit ten-thousand mentors through one-thousand churches as an answer to the crisis of fatherlessness in America.
A sought-after speaker, Matt has delivered lectures to a wide-range of audiences including the Women of Faith Conference, the Veritas Forum at Harvard University and the Veritas Forum at Cal Poly. In 2008, Matt was asked to deliver the closing prayer on Monday night at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.
Matt’s next book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years humorously and tenderly chronicles Matt’s experience with filmmakers as they edit his life for the screen, hoping to make it less boring. He then shares the principles storytellers use to make a story meaningful and exciting, exploring their affect when he applies those principles to his actual life.
Of his new book, Matt says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I’m going to use the money to go to space.”
