Edward McKendree Bounds (1835-1913), a native of Missouri, was a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Many of his eleven books focused on prayer,
St. Augustine, Nathan Stone, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders, George Mueller, G.K. Chesterton, R. A. Torrey, D.L. Moody, E.M. Bounds, J.C. Ryle, Hannah Whitall Smith, Thomas A. Kempis, F.B. Meyer, C.H. Spurgeon, Andrew Murray, L.E. Maxwell, John Bunyan, Mrs. Howard Taylor & Dr. Howard Taylor
