Tyndale House Publishers is an American Christian publishing company founded in 1962 by Kenneth N. Taylor in Wheaton, Illinois. The company was established to publish Taylor's own paraphrase of the Bible, eventually issued as The Living Bible, which sold tens of millions of copies and provided the financial foundation for the company's later expansion into a broad Christian-book publishing program. Tyndale House is best known today for the New Living Translation (NLT) Bible, first released in 1996 as a thought-for-thought translation prepared by a team of more than ninety biblical scholars, and for publishing the bestselling Left Behind apocalyptic-fiction series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, which began appearing in 1995 and sold more than sixty million copies across its sixteen volumes. The company's catalog spans Bible translations, biblical reference works, Christian living titles, devotional books, and Christian fiction. Many of the company's catalog volumes appear in library records with corporate authorship attribution rather than under a single named author, particularly compilations, devotional anthologies, reference works, and study Bibles. The 2004 sports-themed Tyndale title appearing under the corporate name in some catalogs represents one such compilation. The company is privately held and continues to operate from Carol Stream, Illinois, where it publishes hundreds of new titles annually and maintains one of the largest Bible-publishing programs in the United States. Tyndale House is unrelated to the United Kingdom's Tyndale House biblical-research institution in Cambridge, despite the shared name.