Nephi Anderson

Born in Christiania, Norway, on January 22, 1865, he immigrated to Utah as a child and grew up in the Latter-day Saint community there. He became a teacher, journalist, and missionary as well as a novelist, drawing on church life and western settlement for much of his writing.

He is especially remembered for Added Upon (1898), a novel that became one of the best-known works of early Latter-day Saint fiction. He also wrote other novels, short fiction, and a long diary, and his work is often noted for trying to connect religious belief with ordinary family and community experience.

He died on January 6, 1923. Today he is still remembered as an important early voice in Mormon literature and as a writer who helped give that tradition some of its first enduring popular stories.