![]() With her husband, she taught an honors class on writing personal essays and memoirs. ![]() She was a popular speaker at BYU Women’s Conferences. She has also written nonfiction books specifically for an Latter-day Saint audience. She also wrote Finding Daddy (2007) and Thoughts of a Grasshopper (personal essays, 1992). Her A Dance For Three was also an ALA Best Book. Her third novel, The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman, was also an ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, and an Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel. The 5 is Silent was an ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, Utah Arts Council Best Young Adult Novel, Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel, and another New York Public Library Children's Choice Book. Her second novel, My Name is Sus5an Smith. The book later became a children's choice book with both the New York Public Library and the International Reading Association. ![]() She had won the Delacorte Press First Young Adult Novel Contest the same day her husband received his offer of employment, and her winning book, The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeier, was published in 1987. They both took positions at Brigham Young University in 1985. ![]() She is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.īorn Louise Roos and raised in Salt Lake City, she earned her master’s degree in English at the University of Minnesota while her husband, Tom, was a professor there. Louise Plummer is an author and retired associate professor of English. ![]()
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