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Margaret Young
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Young is married to English professor Bruce Wilson Young (since 1950). Bruce is a Brigham Young University, Columbia and Harvard graduate who has written multiple essays and the book Family Life in the Age of Shakespeare. They are the parents of four children, including vocal performer and music instructor Kaila Lifferth and writer Robbie Blair.
The trilogy, published between 2000 and 2003, was republished in revised and expanded form in 2012 and 2013.
Documentary filmmaker Scott Freebairn produced and directed the film. More recently, Young served as the project director for the Utah chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society"s film The Wisdom of our Years.
She is currently at work on a feature film titled Heart of Africa for which she wrote the screenplay. Young received a bachelor"s degree in 1979 and a master"s degree in 1988 from Brigham Young University.
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Her published work includes the novels House Without Walls (1991), Salvador (1992), and Heresies of Nature (2002) and the short story collections Elegies and Love Songs (1992) (which won an Association of Mormon Letters award) and Love Chains (1997). The film’s director is Sterling Van Wagenen, co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival.
