Levi S. Peterson
Levi Savage Peterson (born 1933) is a Mormon biographer, essayist and fictionist whose best-known works include the seminal biography of Juanita Brooks, his own autobiography and his novel TheBackslider, "standard for the contemporary Mormon novel".[1] He was born and reared in the Mormon community of Snowflake, Arizona and is an emeritus professor of English at Weber State University. He edited Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought from 2004 to 2008.
His work as a writer centers in "the possibility of wrong behavior"; his works "variously examine the tension between Sainthood as fact and Sainthood as aspiration, between belief and doubt, and between expected blessings and the traumas of reality."[2] Similarly, he taught his writing students to "Write from the other side of your inhibitions".[3]
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References
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- Levi S. Peterson at the MLCA Database
- Mormon Expression interview with Levi Peterson
- Mormon Stories interview with Levi Peterson
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- ↑ People of Paradox by Terryl L. Givens, page 313 (2007) ISBN 0-19-516711-2
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- ↑ "The Bright Side of the Dark Side" by Patricia Karamesines
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