Thomas J. Lyon

Thomas J. Lyon is Professor Emeritus of English at Utah State University and former President of the Western Literature Association.

A Collective Yearning | Eugene England and Lavina Fielding Anderson, eds., Tending the Garden: Essays on Mormon Literature

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 4

There is a collective yearning here, a palpable sincerity, that you can’t help but like and respect. The desire that practically radiates from these pages is for Mormon literature to be taken seriously, both by…