Shepherd Knapp

Born in 1873, Shepherd Knapp, Jr. was an American Presbyterian minister and author. He served as assistant pastor at the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City from 1901 to 1908, a role that shaped several of his best-known works about urban ministry and church life.

His books show a wide range of interests. Alongside church histories and sermons, he wrote reflective works such as God in the City, Traces of Humor in the Sayings of Jesus, and On the Edge of the Storm: The Story of a Year in France. The list of his publications suggests a writer interested not only in doctrine, but also in character, memory, public life, and the moral questions raised by war.

Knapp died in 1946. Today he is remembered as a minister-author whose writing combined pastoral warmth with a close eye for the spiritual and social pressures of his time.