A. C. Heldman was born in Queens, New York and raised in Yonkers. After graduation from college, he did his training for ordained ministry at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Jersey. He sp...ver maisA. C. Heldman was born in Queens, New York and raised in Yonkers. After graduation from college, he did his training for ordained ministry at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Jersey. He spent his first eight years as a Presbyterian pastor at rural Chester, New York. From there he went to Long Island and ministered for twenty-seven years in the suburban school district of West Islip. In 1997, he and his wife moved to Tennessee where he began work on a series of novels depicting life surrounding the career of fictional minister, Jerry Flynn.ver menos