![]() ![]() ![]() He later served a 30-month mission to Germany for the Mormon Church. He dropped out of high school in 1946 to join the U. He recalls spending his childhood “running free” through the Wasatch Mountains as he hunted, fished, and hiked. Thayer was born on April 19, 1929, and grew up in Provo, Utah. He passed away on October 17, 2017, of liver cancer. Eugene England called Thayer "the father of contemporary Mormon fiction and one of its major voices." Mormon author, John Bennion, said: "Thayer taught us how to explore the interior life, with its conflicts of doubt and faith, goodness and evil, of a believing Mormon." Thayer was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Thayer was a fiction writer, considered by some as the “Mormon Hemingway” for his straightforward style and prose in exploring contemporary Mormon life. ![]()
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