Gerald Niels Lund was a general authority

General authority

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , a general authority is a member of certain leadership organizations who are given administrative and ecclesiastical authority over the church...

 of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 2002 to 2008. During his tenure, he lived in Solihull

Solihull

Solihull is a town in the West Midlands of England with a population of 94,753. It is a part of the West Midlands conurbation and is located 9 miles southeast of Birmingham city centre...

, England

England

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 for 3 years. He currently lives in Bountiful, Utah

Bountiful, Utah

Bountiful is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 42,552, a three percent increase over the 2000 figure of 41,301...

 and serves in Salt Lake City. Lund was released as a member of the church's Second Quorum of the Seventy on October 4, 2008.

Lund is also a popular LDS fiction

LDS fiction

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 writer, having written the The Work and the Glory

The Work and the Glory

The Work and the Glory is a nine-part novel series by Gerald N. Lund chronicling the birth and early growth of Mormonism through the lives of the fictional Steed family. The Steeds, throughout the series, meet and come to know well many of the prominent early Church members...

series as well as the Kingdom and the Crown series among other books. He has also written several theological non-fiction works for Latter-Day Saints, including, Hearing the Voice of the Lord: Principles and Patterns of Personal Revelation (2008) and The Coming of the Lord (reprint 2005). Lund and his wife have seven children, 28 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. Lund has also written poems that his wife, Lynn, has set to music.

Books

• The Work & the Glory vol. 1: Pillar of Light
• The Work & the Glory vol. 2: Like a Fire is Burning
• The Work & the Glory vol. 3: Truth Will Prevail
• The Work & the Glory vol. 4: Thy Gold to Refine
• The Work & the Glory vol. 5: A Season of Joy
• The Work & the Glory vol. 6: Praise to the Man
• The Work & the Glory vol. 7: No Unhallowed Hand
• The Work & the Glory vol. 8: So Great a Cause
• The Work & the Glory vol. 9: All is Well
• Fire of the Covenant
• The Kingdom and the Crown, Vol. 1: Fishers of Men
• The Kingdom and the Crown, Vol. 2: Come Unto Me
• The Kingdom and the Crown, Vol. 3: Behold the Man ISBN 978-1-57008-853-7
• The Alliance
• Leverage Point
• The Freedom Factor
• The Undaunted

Filmography

• The Work and the Glory
  The Work and The Glory (film)
  The Work and the Glory is a 2004 historical fiction drama film directed by Russell Holt. It tells the story of the fictional Steed family in the 1820s and their struggles trying to adopt the then new Mormon religion and explores their relationship with their community, with its founder, Joseph...
  
   (2004)...Writer (novel The Pillar of Light)
• The Work and the Glory II: American Zion
  The Work and The Glory: American Zion (film)
  The Work and the Glory: American Zion is the sequel to the 2004 film The Work and the Glory and continues the struggle of the Steed's family's conversion to the then new Mormon religion. The film also explores the family's relationship with their community and its founder, Joseph Smith.This movie...
  
  (2005)...Writer (novel Like A Fire is Burning)
• The Work and the Glory III: A House Divided (2006)... Writer (novel Truth Will Prevail)

External links

• Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: Gerald Niels Lund
• Biography of Gerald N. Lund
• News article about The Work and the Glory III
• Deseret Book Biography of Gerald N. Lund