Eugene England is a professor of English literature and former associate director of the Honors Program at Brigham Young University, as well as past president of the Association for Mormon Letters. He is the author of Beyond Romanticism, The Best of Lowell L. Bennion, Brother Brigham, Making Peace, The Quality of Mercy, and Why the Church is as True as the Gospel. He is the editor of Bright Angels and Familiars and Converted to Christ Through the Book of Mormon; co-editor of An Open World, Harvest, and Tending the Garden; and a contributor to Book of Mormon Authorship, Multiply and Replenish, Peculiar People, Personal Voices, and The Prophet Puzzle.