Background
Larson was born in American Fork, Utah to Clinton Larson and his wife the former Lillian Forter.
Larson was born in American Fork, Utah to Clinton Larson and his wife the former Lillian Forter.
University of Utah.
Larson started college at the University of Utah at age 16 with plans to study medicine. However he had an English class with Brewster Ghiselin who convinced him to that he had potential as a writer He served as an Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) missionary in England and then New England from 1939-1941.
Around this time he entered the Army Air Corps in which he served during the duration of World World War World War II He completed his bachelor"s degree at the University of Utah and later earned a master"s degree from the same institution in 1948.
He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English from the University of Denver. Larson was professor at Brigham Young University.
In the early 1970s he was made Brigham Young University"s first poet-in-residence.
(Includes five religious plays: The Mantle of the Prophet,...)