Name Benson Parkinson Role Novelist | ||
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Education Brigham Young University | ||
Benson Young Parkinson (born 1960) is a Latter-day Saint novelist, literary critic, and biographer.
Biography
Parkinson was born in Provo, Utah, and grew up in Ogden. He served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France. In 1985 he graduated from Brigham Young University. He has written two novels, The MTC: Set Apart (Aspen, 1995) and Into the Field (Aspen, 2000), as well as a biography of his maternal grandfather S. Dilworth Young (Covenant, 1994). He has also written many reviews of books and articles on trends in Latter-day Saint fiction. Parkinson founded AML-List, a discussion list sponsored by the Association for Mormon Letters, and served as its first moderator. With Christopher K. Bigelow he founded and co-edited Irreantum, a Mormon literary magazine.
He is married and has five children and currently resides in Ogden, Utah.