People ask me fairly often why a USA TODAY bestselling author with nearly 50 published books doesn’t have a Wikipedia page. It’s a fair question, and the answer says more about Wikipedia than it does about my books.
The Numbers
As of March 2026, readers have bought more than 1.28 million of my books. Here’s what else is on the record:
- USA TODAY bestseller: my story in the anthology Save the Date hit the list in October 2021.
- 2023 Carol Award: Winner Word of Honor (Revell) won Best Romantic Suspense. ACFW’s Carol Awards are the closest thing Christian fiction has to the Oscars.
- 2023 Carol Award Finalist Honor‘s Refuge (Revell) was a finalist for Best Romantic Suspense. Yes. Two of the three finalists that year were my books. Gregg said I had a really good chance of at least coming in second.
- 2022 ACFW Member Service Award.
- Publishers Weekly reviewed Honor Bound (“a thrilling series launch”) and Word of Honor (“Fans of Susan May Warren will enjoy this fast-paced thriller”). PW also covered me back in 2016 as a “bestselling indie author.”
- Other press: WORLD magazine, Kentucky Living and the Winchester Sun have all featured my work, and I’ve done interviews with The Big Thrill, Mystery & Suspense Magazine and many others.
So Why No Wikipedia Page?
Wikipedia decides who “deserves” a page using a test called notability, and notability depends on which sources its editors accept. The trouble is that those editors keep a list rating sources as reliable or unreliable, and Christian publications, and Christians in general, tend to land on the wrong side of it.
The only mention of “Hallee Bridgeman” on Wikipedia is in an article entitled “List of Christian Novels” which lists my earliest series of novels. No links to anything else about me or my books in the entire Wiki.
I’m not the only one saying this. Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia, has written publicly that the site has abandoned its own neutrality policy, including on religion. Sanger has been the most prominent critic for years. He has repeatedly argued that Wikipedia abandoned its original Neutral Point of View (NPOV) policy and is now dominated by what he calls a “Globalist, Academic, Secular, and Progressive” (GASP) worldview. The Wiki article on “Yahweh” presents God as an ancient Semitic weather and war deity who was head of a polytheistic pantheon, while burying traditional Jewish and Christian understandings elsewhere. Sanger has called this one of the clearest examples of bias.
A 2024 Manhattan Institute study found systematic bias in how Wikipedia treats people with traditional Chrsitian wordviews. Conservapedia (founded 2006 by Andrew Schlafly): Explicitly created as a response to what its founders described as Wikipedia’s growing anti-Christian and anti-American bias.
Fox News, UnHerd, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, and others have run pieces on specific controversies (e.g., articles treating speculative claims about Jesus’ sexuality as significant academic discussion) and on the broader pattern of secularizing religious topics.
That anti-Christian bias hits Christian authors hard. Christian fiction is covered mostly by Christian media, and the mainstream outlets Wikipedia favors rarely review my genre. So an author can sell more than a million books to real readers and still be treated as if she simply doesn’t exist.
I believe that’s exactly what has happened to me, and to a lot of my friends in this industry.
Where You Can Find Me
Grokipedia, the newer AI-built encyclopedia, has a full article on me because apparently, xAI doesn’t care if I observe the Sabbath and believe the universe and time were created by Adonai.
And of course you can always find me right here, at halleebridgeman.com.
I don’t write for Wikipedia. I write for you: the readers who’ve picked up my books more than a million times. Thank you. That’s the only recognition I’ve ever really needed.
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