![]() ![]() In March 2008, Hughes received a Lifetime Achievement award at the inaugural Whitney Awards. re interested in Church or world history, or if youre simply looking for a powerful LDS novel, you wont want to miss Rumors of War. He is one of the writers largely credited with the rapidly increasing quality of Mormon literature in recent years. Much of his writing is targeted to children and young adults (particularly sports-themed and World War II-era books), although he is also well known to adult readers of LDS Fiction for "Children of the Promise" and "Hearts of the Children" series, set in World War II and Vietnam War eras respectively. He has written and published over ninety books. Hughes was 35 when his first book was published. Hughes has also taught creative writing at Brigham Young University. Before he became a full-time writer, he taught English at Central Missouri State University for 8 years. He attended Weber State University studying English, and received a Masters in creative writing and a PhD in literature from the University of Washington. ![]() Gary Dean Smith died almost 55 years ago during the opening battle of the. During his senior year in high school he started his first novel. In 1917, the first American civilian casualty of World War I was a Red Cross. He started telling people in junior high that he was going to be a writer, but he did not become serious until he took a creative writing class in high school. Dean Hughes was born in Ogden, Utah in 1943. ![]()
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