Martin Luther's children: the top 10 Protestants in fiction

On 31 October 1517, Luther kickstarted a revolution in Christianity that can still be felt in novels by authors from Daniel Defoe to John Updike

It was, in part, Martin Luther’s love of words that made him so attractive to me as a subject for biography. That, and the looming 500th anniversary of his issuing, on 31 October 1517, of the 95 Theses that kickstarted the Protestant Reformation. The quincentenary has been marked around Europe with celebrations jointly organised by the Lutheran World Federation and (remarkably) the Vatican.

Related: Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident review – a sympathetic reappraisal

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