Gerald N. Lund

Gerald Niels Lund is a popular Mormon author who has also been a General Authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Gerald Lund was born on 12 September 1939 in Fountain Green, Sanpete County, Utah, to Jewell and Evelyn Lund. The family moved to Salt Lake City and later to Murray, Utah, where he spent most of his growing-up years. He currently lives in Alpine, Utah. Lund and his wife, the former Retta Lynn Stanard, have seven children, 27 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. He was called to the Second Quorum of the Seventy in 2002 and honorably released on October 4, 2008.

When Elder Lund returned from his mission around age 21, he set out on a career in construction. It didn't take long, engaging in physical labor, before he realized he needed an education and enrolled at Brigham Young University.

Lund has written many books of popular LDS fiction, including a series called The Work and the Glory, a fictionalized account of Mormon history. Three of the books have been made into movies. He also authored a series called "The Kingdom and the Crown" set in Bible times. His most recent book as of 2009 was The Undaunted" about Latter-day Saints who obeyed the request of Brigham Young to settle southern Utah and had to pass through territory that no wagon train should attempt traversing. This included the daunting passage through Hole in the Rock. Elder Lund has also written several theological non-fiction works for Latter-Day Saints, including, Hearing the Voice of the Lord: Principles and Patterns of Personal Revelation (2008) and The Coming of the Lord (reprint 2005). He has also written poems that his wife has set to music. [1]