Evenson Brian

American academic and writer of both literary fiction and popular fiction, some of the latter being published under B.K. Evenson. His fiction is often described as literary minimalism, but also draws inspiration from horror, weird fiction, detective fiction, science fiction and continental philosophy. Evenson makes frequent use of dark humor and often features characters struggling with the limits and consequences of knowledge. He has also written non-fiction, and translated several books by French-language writers into English. His father, William Evenson, was a longtime professor of physics at Brigham Young University (BYU) and later an administrator at the same school. As a young man, Brian Evenson served a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in France and Switzerland. Evenson resigned from a teaching position at BYU in 1995, and left the church formally in 2000. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less