Richard Paul Evans

Richard Paul Evans is an American author best known for writing The Christmas Box and, more recently, the Michael Vey series. Evans, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife Keri, five children, and one grandson. Evans graduated with a B.A. from the University of Utah in 1984. While working as an advertising executive, he wrote a Christmas story for his children. Unable to find a publisher or an agent, he self-published the work in 1993 as a paperback novella entitled The Christmas Box and distributed it to bookstores in his community. The next year The Christmas Box hit #2 on the New York Times Best Seller list. Released in hardcover in 1995, The Christmas Box (Simon & Schuster) became the first book to simultaneously reach the #1 position on the New York Times Best Seller List for both paperback and hardcover editions. That same year, the book was made into a television movie of the same title. Evans has subsequently written 36 nationally best-selling books, including some for children, with conservative Christian themes and appealing to family values. His 1996 book Timepiece was made into a television movie, as were The Locket (1998), A Perfect Day (2006), The Mistletoe Promise (2016), and The Mistletoe Inn (2017). In 1997, Evans founded Christmas Box House International, an organization devoted to building…