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2 unusual facts about William Hooper Young


William Hooper Young

In Brian Evenson's 2006 novel, The Open Curtain, the protagonist is a disaffected Mormon teenager who obsessively researches Young's involvement in Pulitzer's murder.

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The last recorded location of Hooper Young was that he was in Fair Oaks, California in 1928 trying to locate one of his half-sisters.


Brian Evenson

For example, the main character of The Open Curtain (2006) becomes preoccupied with a murder committed in the early 1900s by William Hooper Young, a grandson of 19th century Mormon leader Brigham Young, while Immobility (2012) takes place in a post-apocalyptic Utah and features some esoteric elements of LDS theology.


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