Colourful writer and local preacher, much imprisoned for uncompromising expression of his distinctive Puritan views. His Pilgrim's Progress presents the individual's movement through life allegorically as a journey. It was widely read and influential in subsequent centuries, renowned for its evocative characters and experiences like Mr Worldly Wiseman, Vanity Fair and the Valley of the Shadow of Death.

• http://www.johnbunyan.org/

• http://www.anesi.com/pilgrim.htm

• http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biorpbunyan.html
• http://www.gospelcom.net/chi/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps086.shtml
• http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/51.html

• http://bible.christiansunite.com/bun/pilgrim01.shtml