Author Adam Nicolson discusses his landmark new book, God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible.

One of the most amazing works of English prose ever produced, the King James Bible was not the product of one genius, but rather a group of some fifty scholars and clergymen, none of whom left another significant work of lasting literary value. Nicolson's book examines the intriguing question of how the bestselling and arguably most influential Englishlanguage bookof all time could have been created by a committee of relative unknowns, and explores the politics and history surrounding its genesis.