George S. Tate

GEORGE S. TATE is assistant professor of comparative literature at Brigham Young University. He has authored several articles on Old English and Old Norse literature. He interviewed Laxness while a Fulbright fellow in Iceland.

Halldor Laxness, the Mormons and the Promised Land

Articles/Essays – Volume 11, No. 2

When the all-seeing eye on the facade of Zion’s Mercantile winked at him, beckoning him with its self-assured commingling of matter and spirit to write a novel about the Promised Land, Halldor Laxness had already…