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Carl E. Olson (born April 17, 1969) is an American, non-fiction author.

Olson was born in Hot Springs, Montana, and raised in Plains, Montana. After graduating from high school in 1987, he studied graphic design and fine art for two years at Phoenix Institute of Technology and Northwest Nazarene College. He then attended Briercrest Bible College in Saskatchewan, Canada from 1989—91, graduating with an associate's degree. In the fall of 1991 he moved to Portland, Oregon, where he worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. After marrying in 1994, he converted to the Catholic Church in 1997, from what he describes as a Protestant fundamentalist organisation. In 2000, he graduated from the University of Dallas with a master's degree in theological studies.

His first book was Will Catholics Be "Left Behind"? A Catholic Critique of the Rapture and Today’s Prophecy Preachers (Ignatius Press, 2003). Olson's second book The Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Code was co-authored with medievalist Sandra Miesel and was published in June 2004. He also wrote the Introduction to Pied Piper of Atheism: Philip Pullman and Children's Fantasy (Ignatius Press, 2008), which was co-authored by Miesel and Pete Vere.

Olson is the editor of Ignatius Insight, the online magazine of Ignatius Press and moderator of Insight Scoop, the Ignatius Press weblog. He is a frequent contributor to the Catholic newspaper Our Sunday Visitor, for which he writes a weekly Scripture column titled "Opening the Word." He is also a contributing editor to This Rock magazine, and has written hundreds of articles, book reviews, and columns for a variety of periodicals and newspapers. In addition to his writing, Olson has appeared on Fox, BBC radio, CNN, EWTN, and other television and radio networks.

Olson lives in Eugene, Oregon, with his wife and three children.

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