About Tory Anderson …

     Tory Anderson was born in Ogden, Utah, but was raised in Burley, Idaho. He came back to Utah in 1979 when he started college at BYU and has stayed here ever since. Tory gained both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in English from BYU. While getting his degrees in English he spent eight years as a radar technician in the 109th Tactical Control Squadron in the Utah Air National Guard.

     Since college Tory has worked as an editor at a publishing house and then for fifteen years as a writer, trainer, and sales engineer for a telecommunications firm in Provo.

     Tory has won numerous awards for his creative fiction and has been anthologized in an anthology of essays about fiction. He was the founding editor of The Wasatch Review International: A Mormon Literary Journal. This publication still exists today in the form of the Irreantum, the ongoing literary journal of the Association of Mormon Letters. Most recently Tory has completed the memoir Adventures of a Common Man: The Life of Rodney Anderson.  He is currently co-authoring memoirs, coaching the writing of life stories, editing, and giving life history writing workshops.

     Tory is married and has eight children. He and his wife stopped at eight because they were running out of rhyming names. They ended up with Tory, Cory, Rory, Clory, Lory, Jory, Glory, and Story. They have made Levan, Utah, their home.

Mark Your Calendars

Our Annual Bell Ringing for The Salvation Army will be on Wednesday, December 17^th. 

August 19^th in History

1812 - The U.S. frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, defeated the British ship Guerriere during the War of 1812.

1934 - Germans voted to make Adolf Hitler Fuhrer.

1960 - American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was convicted of espionage in Moscow.

1977 - Comedian Groucho Marx died in Los Angeles at age 86.

2003 - U.N. special representative Sergio Vieira de Mello was one of 22 killed when a suicide car bomb struck the UN's Baghdad headquarters.