| Marilyn Brown Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown has published three poetry books, fourteen novels, a history of Provo, and two musical plays. As well as earning three university degrees (two from Brigham Young University and one from the University of Utah), Marilyn has won several awards, including the thousand-dollar first prize from the Utah Arts Council and the first Mayhew Award at BYU. She also won the first novel award of the Association for Mormon Letters, an organization for which she has also served as president (2000). As well as working with her husband, Bill, as co-founder of the Villa Playhouse in her hometown of Springville, Utah, she raised one child of her own and five step-children and now enjoys fourteen grandchildren. Her latest project is the novelization of Richard Dutcher’s film Brigham City. [from Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women, 106] Included in 75 Significant Mormon Poets View Works by this Person |
| Also Known As | Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown; Marilyn McMeen Brown; Marilyn Miller; Marilyn McMeen Miller; Marilyn L. BrownMarilyn McMeen Miller; Marilyn McMeen |
| Birth Date | 1938 |
| Career | Marilyn, a resident of Provo, Utah, is a professional writer, an editor for Brigham Young University Press, manager of her own publishing company, and a freshman English teacher. She has published in Church magazines and in Dialogue. |
| Awards | Her novel Rainy won a prize in the Utah State Fine Arts contest. |
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