![]() ![]() Upon his return to Orem, he started a theater company but as it fell into debt he shut it down. ![]() During his time in Brazil he grew deeply enamored of their culture and the several cities he served at became model for the setting of his novels. ![]() However, before earning his graduation degree he volunteered his services as a Mormon missionary in Brazil. ![]() He was then enrolled at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he opted for archaeology but later switched his major to theatre for which he began to write. It is through his learning of the philosophies that inspired his writings throughout his professional career.Ĭard attended Brigham Young High School, when his family moved to Orem, Utah. During his high school years, he discovered the philosophical works by great Greek and Roman philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Euclid and so on. As he grew, his scope of reading widened and he devoured books on all kind of subjects, including Mormon prophets, archaeology, the Holocaust and histories of medicine. The American history appealed him as he began to read novels and soon he started reading non-fiction works, such as Bruce Catton’s The Army of the Potomac. ![]()
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