Todd Burpo

Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back is a 2010 New York Times best-selling Christian biography written by a Methodist pastor, Reverend Todd Burpo from rural Nebraska, and Lynn Vincent and published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. The book documents the near-death experience and the miraculous vision by Burpo's then nearly four-years-old gravely ill son Colton Burpo in 2002, during his appendix surgery, and his visit to heaven. By April 2012, more than o…