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Brady Udall grew up in a large Mormon family in Arizona, where he worked on his grandfather's farm.

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    Brady Udall

    American writer

    Brady Udall is an American writer. In 2010, he was appointed Writer-in-Residence of Idaho, a position he held until 2013.[1]

    Biography

    Udall grew up in a large Mormon family in St.

    Johns, Arizona.[2] He graduated from Brigham Young University and later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.[3] He was formerly a faculty member of Franklin & Marshall College[4] starting in 1998,[5] then Southern Illinois University,[3] and now teaches writing at Boise State University.[6]

    A collection of his short stories titled Letting Loose the Hounds was published in 1998,[7] and his debut novel The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint was first published in 2001.

    The characterization and structure of the latter has been favorably compared to the work of John Irving.[8] Thematically it has been compared to Charles Dickens.[3]Michael Stipe h