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Utah History Encyclopedia |
 | | For almost a century thereafter, Utah's literature could be divided into "insider" writings by the often beleaguered Mormons and intended for internal consumption and "observer" writings intended to explain or sometimes denounce Utah to the larger society. |
| | Linda Sillitoe, a Salt Lake journalist and poet of note, has published a novel, Sideways to the Sun (1987), and a collection of short stories, Windows on the Sea and Other Stories (1990). |
| | Creative activity throughout the state is indicated by the fact that in 1983, 90 percent of the winners were from the Salt Lake Valley; in the 1989 contest, 50 percent were from the valley while 50 percent were writers living elsewhere in the state. |
| www.media.utah.edu /UHE/l/LITERATURE.html (1989 words) |
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