Edward M. (Edward McKendree) Bounds

Edward McKendree Bounds was an American Methodist minister, lawyer, and devotional writer born in Missouri in 1835. After training in law and being admitted to the bar, he left legal practice for the ministry and was ordained in 1859.

During the Civil War, he served as a chaplain in the Confederate army and was later captured by Union forces in Franklin, Tennessee. After the war he continued in church work, including pastoral service and editorial work for a Methodist publication.

Bounds is remembered above all for his writing on prayer. Although only a small part of his work appeared during his lifetime, his books later reached a wide audience and helped make him one of the most widely read Christian devotional authors of his era.