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Roy Hession (1908–1992) was a British evangelist and author, born in London on April 10, 1908. He spent about ten years working for the London merchant bank Barings before committing himself to full-time Christian ministry. Hession had made a childhood profession of faith in 1926, but he traced a decisive turning point in his own spiritual life to 1947, when he helped organize a conference in England with leaders of the East African Revival Movement. Their emphasis on open, specific confession and continual repentance reshaped his understanding of the Christian life and became the message he carried for the rest of his ministry.
Hession wrote The Calvary Road in 1950 together with his first wife, Revel Hession, drawing directly on that experience of revival. The book's message of brokenness, honest fellowship, and reliance on the finished work of the cross has since been translated into more than 80 languages and remains one of the most widely read short works on personal revival in English. Revel Hession died in a road accident in 1967; Roy later married Pamela Greaves, a former missionary to East Africa, in 1968.
Hession continued writing and traveling in ministry for the rest of his life, publishing further books including My Calvary Road (1978) and Good News for Bad People (1989), until a serious stroke in 1989 slowed his public ministry. He died in 1992.
Sources: Roy Hession, Wikipedia and CLC Publications, author page.