![]() ![]() And when he finally found himself with nothing to do one autumn, he wrote a book for his children that made him a multimillionaire, proving again that life is stranger than fiction.Įvans' writing career has been one big happy accident. He could write about his first aborted attempts at a career. His hero - the man he wanted to emulate - was not Joe Montana, but Thomas Edison. He could write about his boyhood, which was unremarkable except for the fact that he spent long hours alone building a robot and later an actual submarine. ![]() That lonely, elderly woman we visit for several hours on Christmas Eve in "The Christmas Box"? That happened to Evans while he was completing a "home teaching" assignment for his LDS Church ward.īut so far, other than a few vignettes, Evans hasn't really written his own story, which could be his best material yet. A man and wife dancing in their yard at lunchtime in the "Last Promise"? Did it. The man who is down on his luck and writes a book and then struggles with the demands of fame and fortune in "The Last Promise"? Evans again. The man who was ambushed by a TV interviewer on the air in "A Perfect Day"? It happened to Evans. Those Americans who move to Italy in "The Last Promise"? Evans and his family did it. There are bits and pieces of Rick Evans' life sprinkled throughout his nine novels. ![]()
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