Nephi Anderson

Christian Nephi Anderson was a prolific LDS author and the most wellknown from the Home Literature period of LDS fiction. His most successful work was his first novel, Added Upon , but his writing career also included short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. He published a total of ten novels.

Christian Nephi Anderson was born in Christiania , Norway onJanuary 1865. His parents, Christian and Petronella Nielson, had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday 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.

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