About David Farland

David Farland is an award-winning, New York Times Bestselling Author with nearly fifty novels in print. He holds the Guinness record for the world’s largest book signing.

While most of his novels fit into other genres, Dave felt deeply touched by the story of the Willie Handcart Company, and so began to study it with an eye toward writing the tale. He spent two years in the process, reading from numerous biographies, pulling handcarts, and traveling along the Old Mormon Trail.

Dave lives in Saint George, Utah with his wife and five children.

Dave joined the Mormon church at the age of 15 and has served as a missionary and a seminary teacher, along with many other callings.

David has worked in a number of writerly jobs—as a prison guard, an ice-cream pie maker, meat-cutter, missionary, movie producer, video game designer, editor, as a judge for one of the world’s largest writing contests, and as a creative writing instructor at Brigham Young University.

In addition to writing, David likes to hike, camp, and fish.