August 31st – American Minute – John Bunyan
Imprisoned twelve years for preaching without permission from the government, he wrote "Pilgrim's Progress," an allegory of a man named Christian fleeing from the City of Destruction and directed by Evangelist to follow the narrow path to the City of Zion. This classic, "Pilgrim's Progress," was written by John Bunyan, who died AUGUST 31, 1688.