Neale Donald Walsch

Neale Donald Walsch (born 1943) is an American spiritual author best known for the Conversations with God series, which has sold more than ten million copies and been translated into more than thirty languages. His writing presents itself as a recorded dialogue between the author and a divine voice.

Walsch was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and worked as a radio broadcaster, public-information officer, and public-relations executive on the West Coast. By his own account, in the early 1990s, after a period in which he experienced a serious car accident, the breakdown of a marriage, and a stretch of homelessness in Oregon, he began writing an angry letter to God and felt that he received answers as he wrote. The transcript of those exchanges became Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, published in 1995.

The trilogy was completed with Book 2 in 1997 and Book 3 in 1998, all reaching the New York Times bestseller list. He went on to publish more than thirty further titles, including Friendship with God, Communion with God, The New Revelations, Tomorrow's God, Home with God, and What God Said. A 2006 feature film adapted his life story.

Walsch founded the nonprofit Conversations with God Foundation and has lectured widely on what he calls the new spirituality, drawing on but not confined to Christian language. He lives in Oregon.

The given name Neale is a variant spelling of Neil, from the Old Irish Niall, of disputed origin and often glossed as 'champion' or 'cloud'. It came into wider English use through Scottish and Irish migration. He has carried it through more than three decades of spiritual writing.