Nephi Anderson (1865-1923) was the most prominent fiction writer of the "Home Literature" period of Mormon Literature. His Added Upon (1898) remains the best exemplar of this period, and has stayed in publication continually for a century. Anderson served as editor of the Millennial Star while serving a mission in Great Britain in 1904-06, of the Liahona (the voice of the church to the central United States) during another mission from 1909-10, and of the Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine from 1910-23. Anderson served on the General Board of the Mutual Improvement Association from 1910-23, and while serving on the General Priesthood Committee of the Church prepared several courses of study for priesthood quorums. His literary works have been studied critically most prominently by Richard Cracroft. (See his "Nephi, Seer of Modern Times: The Home Literature Novels of Nephi Anderson." Brigham Young University Studies 25 (Spring 1985): 3–15.)

Contributions to Mormon Literature

• Added Upon. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1967 (1898).
• The Boys of Springtown. Independence, Missouri: Zion's Printing and Publishing Co, 1920.
• The Castle Builder. Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1909.
• A Daughter of the North. Salt Lake City: De Utah-Nederlander Publishing Co., 1915.
• Dorian. Salt Lake City: Bikuber Publishing Co, 1921.
• John St. John. Independence, Missouri: Zion's Printing and Publishing Co, 1917.
• Marcus King, Mormon. Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1916 (1900).
• Piney Ridge Cottage. Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1912.
• Romance of a Missionary. Independence, Missouri: Zion's Printing and Publishing Co., 1919.
• The Story of Chester Lawrence. Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1913.

• "At St. Peter's Gate." Improvement Era 21 (November 1917): 45-50.

• "A Plea for Fiction," Improvement Era 1 (January 1898): 186-88.
• "Purpose in Fiction," Improvement Era 1 (February 1898): 269-71.

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