Have any fiction books been written about Mormonism and feature Mormon characters and/or practices?
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HungryGuy
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There is actually quite a bit of it. Obviously, you aren't going to find much of it in most bookstores, but you will find it in LDS bookstores like DeseretBook.com, seagullbook.com, or byubookstore.com . One of my favorites is the Work and the Glory series by Gerald N. Lund. This is a series of nine books that follows a fictional family (the Steeds) and start in Palmyra, NY, in March of 1837 and ends in the Salt Lake Valley in September of 1847.
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Probably the most famous one would be Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Study In Scarlet". See here: http://sherlock-holmes.classic-literature.co.uk/a-study-in-scarlet/ It's not particularly complimentary about Mormons. Mormon characters also feature fairly prominently in Donna Tartt's "The Little Friend", although they aren't the main focus of the story.
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There is another set of books called "children of the promise" and starts with a novel entitled "rumours of war" fantastic series about an LDS Family around the time of the 2nd world war
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Mark Twain wrote many negative things about Mormons as Did Zane Grey. The first version of Battlestar Galactica was very loosely based on the lost ten tribes and some (not doctrine) Mormon beliefs that the lost tribes are extra terrestrial. Orson Scott Card who wrote Ender's Game and other science fiction among other books has lots of Mormon underpinnings in his work.
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probably no more or less than of Catholic,Judaism,Baptists,Amish, etc. characters and practices... but I know of none...i read tons and i am sure i have read and just can't recall, does not stand out in my memory...:)justme
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Dan Brown (author of _The Da Vinci Code_) is working on a book where Masonry and Mormonism provide the background for the plot. Stephen King's _The Stand_ mentions Mormonism.
Glenn Blaylock 
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