Hugh Prather (1938-2010) was a lay minister and bestselling author. He is most famous for Notes to Myself- My Struggle to Become a Person, which began as a personal journal and has sold more than 5 million copies and has been translated into ten languages. With his wife, Gayle, he also wrote Notes to Each Other, Parables from Other Planets, and I Will Never Leave You. Gayle Prather, along with her late husband Hugh Prather, is the author of many books, including Notes to Myself, which has sold over a million copies, Notes to Each Other, and I Will Never Leave You. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she is a resident minister at St. Francis in the Foothills Methodist Church.