Dean Hughes has published more than one hundred books. He writes for all ages: children, young adults and adults. He is best known for Children of the Promise and Hearts of the Children, a double series of historical novels about the World War II era and the 1960’s. Teenaged readers have especially enjoyed Solder Boys, also about World War II.
Dean graduated with a BA from Weber State University and holds an MA in creative writing and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Washington. He spent the early years of his career as an English professor at Central Missouri State University but left to write full-time, which he did for seventeen years. He combined writing with teaching while at Brigham Young University from 1997 to 2002, and again from 2005 to 2008. Dean and his wife Kathleen have three children and nine grandchildren. They live in Midway, Utah.
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