Christian Nephi Anderson (January 22, 1865 – January 6, 1923) was a prolific LDS author and the most well-known from the "Home Literature" period of LDS fiction. His most successful work was his first novel, Added Upon (1898), but his writing career also included short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. He wrote a total of ten novels.
Christian Nephi Anderson was born in Christiania (modern Oslo), Norway on 22 January 1865. His parents, Christian ...
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Christian Nephi Anderson (January 22, 1865 – January 6, 1923) was a prolific LDS author and the most well-known from the "Home Literature" period of LDS fiction. His most successful work was his first novel, Added Upon (1898), but his writing career also included short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. He wrote a total of ten novels.
Christian Nephi Anderson was born in Christiania (modern Oslo), Norway on 22 January 1865. His parents, Christian and Petronella Nielson, had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints only a few years before his birth and in 1871, they emigrated to Utah, United States. They settled first in Coalville, Utah and later in Ogden, Utah.
In 1886, Nephi married Asenath Tillotson and began a teaching career in Ogden and Brigham City, Utah. From 1891 to 1893 he served a mission for the LDS Church in his home country of Norway and upon returning, resumed teaching. He served as Superintendent of Schools in Box Elder County, Utah from 1900-1903. Asenath...
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