Douglas Thayer


Biography

Douglas Thayer teaches English at Brigham Young University, where he has served as director of composition, chair of creative writing, associate department chair, and associate dean. He has received various awards for his fiction, including the Karl G. Maeser Creative Arts Award. He is the author of the novels Summer Fire and The Conversion of Jeff Williams and two collections of short stories, Mr. Wahlquist in Yellowstone and Under the Cottonwoods and Other Mormon Stories, and he has been published in Colorado Quarterly, Dialogue, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.

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Books

Wasatch: Mormon Stories and a Novella    by Douglas Thayer
Price: $2.99 USD. 95260 words. Published by Zarahemla Books  on December 2, 2011. Fiction.

Douglas Thayer's third collection of short fiction presents a dozen of his career-best stories, including several that have never before appeared in print.
The Tree House    by Douglas Thayer
Price: $2.99 USD. 137680 words. Published by Zarahemla Books  on March 15, 2011. Fiction.

As a missionary in post-WWII Germany and a solider in the Korean War, Harris Thatcher faces questions of faith, the meaning of life, and the capriciousness of death.
Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood    by Douglas Thayer
Price: $2.99 USD. 55650 words. Published by Zarahemla Books  on February 18, 2011. Nonfiction.

In the days before sunscreen, soccer practice, MTV, and Amber Alerts, boys roamed freely in the American West--fishing, hunting, hiking, pausing to skinny-dip in a river or pond. Douglas Thayer was such a boy, and in this poignant, often humorous memoir, he depicts his Utah Valley boyhood during the Great Depression and World War II.

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1940s    american west    biography    childhood    coming of age    germany    great depression    hunting    korea    lds    literature    memoir    missionary    mormon    native american    provo    religion    short story    utah    utah valley    war