7 Famous Authors Who Wrote About Latter-day Saints

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You might not have known this, but many authors have written about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Victorian writers, who were writing just after the Church was restored, were especially fascinated by the peculiarity of the Latter-day Saints. Here are seven famous authors who wrote about Latter-day Saints. Though these authors used the word "Mormon" to describe the Church and its members, please understand that the word "Mormon" is an incorrect nickname, as stated by President Russel M. Nelson in this last General Conference. Mark Twain 1. Mark Twain Samuel Clemens—best known by his pen name, Mark Twain—was an extremely successful American writer. He was best known for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In 1872, Twain published Roughing It, a semi-autobiographical novel about Twain's travels through the Wild West in the 1860's. Twain spent two days in Salt Lake City, and he was fascinated by the Latter-day Saints. He wrote several chapters about them, about Brigham Young, and about the Book of Mormon. Mark Twain's writings...

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