J.D. Newman • Author


Dr. J.D. Newman is a professor of theatre at Utah Valley University and the director of the Noorda Theatre Center for Children and Youth.  He lives with his family in Sandy City, Utah. Dr. Newman became the first recipient of the Reba R. Robertson Award from the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America.  At UVU, Dr. […]

J.L. Thompson — Author


J.L. Thompson has written several books on the subjects of ancient and modern mysteries, the origins of religion, mythologies, the occult, politics and history. He has long been interested in the literature of the ancient world. He has made a lifelong study of selected ancient texts and uses many of the accounts of these ancient […]

Thom Duncan — Author


Thom Duncan has written many LDS-oriented plays (one of which, Matters of the Heart, currently anthologized in Saints on Stage, won an award as Best New Play of the Year in 1985), two technical books about Novell software, and several as yet unproduced screenplays. All of his LDS plays are represented by Zion Theatricals. (For […]

L. T. Downing — Author


L.T. Downing is the author of Get That Gold! and The Pilfered Papers, Books One and Two in the Adventures of the Restoration series, as well as Island of the Stone Boy. She has published fiction for young people in the Friend and New Era magazines. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham […]

William Slaughter — Author


William W. Slaughter is a photo historian and the senior archivist at the LDS Church History Library. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in library science from Brigham Young University. His other publications include Joseph Smith’s America: His Life and Times; How We Got the Doctrine and Covenants; 40 […]