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English Christian writer and preacher (1628–1688)

This article is about the 17th-century English writer and preacher. For other uses, see John Bunyan (disambiguation).

John Bunyan (; 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher.

He is best remembered as the author of the Christian allegoryThe Pilgrim's Progress, which also became an influential literary model.

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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 Bedford. He had some schooling and, at the age of sixteen, joined the Parliamentary Army at Newport Pagnell 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. He became interested in religion after his marriage, attending first the parish church and then joining the Bedford Meeting, a nonconformist group in St John'