Texe Marrs was born on 15 July 1944 in Fred, Texas. He served as a United States Air Force officer for twenty years, retiring as a captain, then spent five years on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin before founding two Austin-based Christian ministries and becoming a prolific author and radio host. He wrote more than fifty books, including three international bestsellers, on conservative Christian and prophecy themes; Dark Secrets of the New Age, listed here, is his 1987 critique of the New Age movement.
Marrs died on 23 November 2019 in the Austin, Texas area, at the age of 75.
