Levi S. Peterson
Levi Savage Peterson (born 1933) is a Mormon biographer, essayist and fictionist whose best-known works include a seminal biography of Juanita Brooks, his own autobiography, and his novel The Backslider, "standard for the contemporary Mormon novel." He was born and reared in the Mormon community of Snowflake, Arizona and is an emeritus professor of English at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Denmark. He edited Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought from 2004 to 2008.
Bode and Iris
Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 2
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Articles/Essays – Volume 17, No. 4
Juanita Brooks’s Quicksand and Cactus: The Evolution of a Literary Memoir
Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 1
Eternity Be Damned? The Impact of Interfaith Vows: Eternity with a Dry-Land Mormon
Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 2
Plight and Promise: Windows on the Sea and Other Stories by Linda Sillitoe
Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 4
Lavina Fielding Anderson and the Power of a Church in Exile
Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 4
My College Years: From the Autobiography of Levi S. Peterson
Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 3
Remarks at the Memorial Service for Eugene England, Provo, Utah. August 25, 2001: Salvaged for Mormonism
Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 1
Thinking Globally: Explorations into a Truly International, Multi-Cultural Church
Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 4
Editor’s Introduction: Celebrating Forty Years of Dialogue
Articles/Essays – Volume 39, No. 1
“Astonished Each Day”: An Interview with Richard J Van Wagoner Utah Artist
Articles/Essays – Volume 39, No. 2
Badge and Bryant, or, the Decline and Fall of the Dogfrey Club
Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 1