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List Of Utah Writers
This is a list of Utah writers. A *Edward Abbey (1927–1989) – environmental fiction and nonfiction *Thomas G. Alexander (born 1935) – history *James B. Allen (historian), James B. Allen (born 1927) – history *Jack Anderson (columnist), Jack Anderson (1922–2005) – journalism, nonfiction *Nephi Anderson (1865–1923) – religious/family values fiction *Leonard J. Arrington (1917–1999) – history, nonfiction *Montgomery Atwater (1904–1976) – nonfiction and youth fiction B *Will Bagley (1950–2021) – history, nonfiction *Paul Dayton Bailey (1906–1987) – history, nonfiction *Roseanne Barr (born 1952) – screenplays *Rick Bass (born 1958) – fiction, nonfiction *Ken Brewer (1941–2006) – poetry, nonfiction *Fawn M. Brodie (1915–1981) – history, nonfiction *Juanita Brooks (1898–1989) – history, nonfiction *John Brown (American author), John Brown (born 1966) – fantasy, thrillers, science fiction *Marilyn Brown (author), Marilyn Brown (born 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Harold Brunvand
Jan Harold Brunvand (born March 23, 1933) is an American retired folklorist, researcher, writer, public speaker, and professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah. Brunvand is best known for popularizing the concept of the urban legend, a form of modern folklore or story telling. Urban legends are "too good to be true" stories that travel by word of mouth, by print, or by the internet and are attributed to an FOAF: friend of a friend. "Urban legends," Brunvand says, "have a persistent hold on the imagination because they have an element of suspense or humor, they are plausible and they have a moral." Though criticized for the "popular" rather than "academic" orientation of his books, ''The Vanishing Hitchhiker'' and others, Brunvand felt that it was a "natural and worthwhile part of his job as a folklorist to communicate the results of his research to the public." For his lifetime dedication to the field of folklore, which included radio and television appearances, a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Covey
Stephen Richards Covey (October 24, 1932 – July 16, 2012) was an American educator, author, businessman, and speaker. His most popular book is '' of Highly Effective People''. His other books include '' First Things First'', ''Principle-Centered Leadership'', ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families'', , and ''The Leader In Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time''. In 1996, ''Time'' magazine named him one of the 25 most influential people. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University (USU) at the time of his death. Early life and education Covey was born to Stephen Glenn Covey and Irene Louise Richards Covey in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 24, 1932. Louise was the daughter of Stephen L Richards, an apostle and counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to David O. McKay. Covey was the grandson of Stephen Mack Covey who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Correia
Larry Correia (; born 1977) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer, known for his ''Monster Hunter International'', ''Grimnoir Chronicles'', and ''Saga of the Forgotten Warrior'' series. He has authored or co-authored over 30 novels, has over 50 published short works, two collections of stories, and has co-edited four published anthologies. He was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2011, and his works have been nominated for the Audie Award multiple times, winning twice. He has won the Dragon Award for Best Military Science Fiction or Best Fantasy Novel four times. In 2014, Correia started the Sad Puppies campaign to nominate works for the Hugo Award, including his own, that he claimed were more popular but often unfairly passed over in favor of more literary works or stories with progressive political themes. Early life Correia grew up in El Nido, California working on his Portuguese father's dairy farm until his mid-teens, when his fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arianne Cope
Arianne B. Cope is an American Latter-day Saint novelist. Cope has written many articles for such LDS Church publications as the '' New Era''. Cope has been a recipient of the Marilyn Brown Novel Award from the Association for Mormon Letters for her novel '' The Coming of Elijah''. This novel has been criticized for its portrayal of the LDS Church's Indian Placement Program.Cindy Yurth"Former LDS placement students take issue with novel" ''Navajo Times''. Cope has also been the editor of the ''Tremonton Ledger'', a newspaper published in Tremonton, Utah Tremonton is a city in Box Elder County, Utah. The population was 9,894 at the time of the 2020 census. As of 2024, Tremonton has an estimated population of 13,713 and is one of the fastest growing municipalities in the state of Utah (2024 est .... Notes External links "Stowaway" by Arianne Cope in Literary Mama American Latter Day Saint writers Living people American women novelists Novelists from Utah 21st-ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ally Condie
Allyson Braithwaite Condie (born November 2, 1978) is an author of young adult and middle grade fiction."Ally Condie – Summary Bibliography" ISFDB. Retrieved 2014-08-22. Her novel '' Matched'' was a #1 ''New York Times'' and international bestseller, and spent over a year on the ''New York Times'' Bestseller List. The sequels ('' Crossed'' and '' Reached'') are also ''New York Times'' bestsellers. ''Matched'' was chosen as one of YALSA's 2011 Teens' Top Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Coles
Katharine Coles is an American poet and educator. She served from 2006 to 2012 as Utah's third poet laureate and currently serves as the inaugural director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute and the co-director of the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature. Biography Coles earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington. She later earned a master's degree from the University of Houston and her Ph.D. from the University of Utah. In 1997 she joined the faculty at the University of Utah. Her published works include the novels ''Fire Season'' and ''The Measurable World'', and five collections of poems: ''Fault'', ''The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension'', ''A History of the Garden'', ''The One Right Touch'', and ''Flight''. She has also contributed stories, poems, and essays to ''The Paris Review'', ''The New Republic'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''Image'', ''Upstreet'', and ''Poetry''. Awards and honors Coles received the PEN New Writer’s Award in 1992. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clayton M
Clayton may refer to: People and fictional characters *Clayton (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the surname or given name * Clayton baronets *The Clayton Brothers, Jeff and John, jazz musicians *Clayton Brothers, Rob and Christian, painter artists Places Canada * Clayton, Ontario * Rural Municipality of Clayton No. 333, Saskatchewan Australia *Clayton, Victoria **Clayton railway station, Melbourne *Clayton Bay, a town in South Australia formerly known as Clayton * Electoral district of Clayton, a former electoral district in Victoria United Kingdom *Clayton, Manchester * Clayton, South Yorkshire *Clayton, Staffordshire, in Newcastle-under-Lyme *Clayton, West Sussex *Clayton, West Yorkshire * Clayton-le-Dale, Lancashire * Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire * Clayton-le-Woods, Lancashire United States * Clayton, Alabama * Clay County, Arkansas, formerly "Clayton County" * Clayton, California, in Contra Costa County * Clayton, Delaware * Clayton, Georgia, a city i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cheever
John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome. His short stories included " The Enormous Radio", " Goodbye, My Brother", " The Five-Forty-Eight", " The Country Husband", and " The Swimmer", and he also wrote five novels: '' The Wapshot Chronicle'' (National Book Award, 1958), from the Award's 50-year anniversary publications and from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) '' The Wapshot Scandal'' (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), '' Bullet Park'' (1969), '' Falconer'' (1977) and a novella, '' Oh What a Paradise It Seems'' (1982). His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character's dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Keonaona Chai
Nathan Keonaona Chai is an American novelist known for having written ''Fire Creek'' (2005), which was turned into the film '' Fire Creek'', for which he also wrote the screenplay. Chai was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He studied at Brigham Young University (BYU), receiving both a bachelor's degree in then a masters in English with an emphasis in creative writing. He also worked as an editorial intern with ''BYU Magazine''. Chai currently teaches English at BYU. He has written several short stories, one of which was published in '' Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought''. In 2001 and 2002 Chai won honorable mention in the Stony Brook Short fiction contest. Chai and his wife Mary live in Orem, Utah Orem is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States, in the northern part of the state. It is adjacent to Provo, Utah, Provo, Lindon, Utah, Lindon, and Vineyard, Utah, Vineyard and is approximately south of Salt Lake City. Orem is one of the pri ..., with their two children. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Carlson
Ron Carlson (born 1947) is an American novelist, short story writer and professor. Life and career Carlson was born in Logan, Utah, and grew up in Salt Lake City. He received a master's degree in English from the University of Utah. He then taught at The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, where he began his first novel. He became a professor of English at Arizona State University in 1985, teaching creative writing to undergraduates and graduates, and ultimately becoming director of its Creative Writing program. Carlson then moved to the University of California, Irvine. Carlson was the director of UCI's Creative Writing program until his resignation in 2018. His short stories originally appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''Harper's Magazine'', ''Esquire'', and '' GQ''. In addition to his fiction, Carlson has also written for ''The New York Times Book Review'' and the ''Los Angeles Times Book Review''. He wrote of his first "good" story: "I did not understand my story; many times y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. , he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award for Best Novel, Hugo Award and a Nebula Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award in List of joint winners of the Hugo and Nebula awards, consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel ''Ender's Game'' (1985) and its sequel ''Speaker for the Dead'' (1986). A Ender's Game (film), feature film adaptation of ''Ender's Game'', which Card coproduced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, Locus Fantasy Award-winning series ''The Tales of Alvin Maker'' (1987–2003). Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; his opposition to homosexuality has provoked public criticism. Card, who is a great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, was born i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
