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Evans came down with a severe case of pneumonia in December, “and then I caught COVID on top of it. I’ve never been that sick in my life,” he said. “I thought, “I don’t know if I’m going to make it through this.’ It was terrifying. And then the book started coming to me.” He lay in bed, he said, “scribbling down” what would become “A Christmas Memo...
“A Christmas Memory” is very Salt Lake-centric. For locals, it’s both familiar and a look back into the past. “It’s kind of seared in my mind,” Evans said. Like his fictionalized counterpart, Evans and his mother did indeed move into a home on east 3900 South. He did collect bottles and take them to a local milk depot for the deposits. And he did a...
Evans is fully aware that things have changed since the 1960s. That one of the central relationships in the book — Ricky and old Mr. Foster ��� wouldn’t happen today. “You would never let a young boy go to an old man’s house,” he said. “But he was great. He was a lonely old man who I’d go visit.” There was a real Mr. Foster in Evans’ life, but he w...
“A Christmas Memory” is a rather quick read — a small, 182-page book that you can get through in one sitting, if you like. “I did that on purpose,” Evans said. He proposed to his publisher, Simon & Schuster, taking less money for a small book that harkened back to “The Christmas Box,” which has sold more than 8 million copies. “That was a small boo...
Evans isn’t overly pleased with many of the TV movie versions of his novels. A lot of them have been “chopped up” to the point that they’re “unrecognizable. But when they do it and stay true to it, it’s really a beautiful thing,” he said. And that was how it turned out Netflix and director Charles Shyer (“Father of the Bride”), who were “really rem...
Evans would like to see a remake of “The Christmas Box,” and he’s been in talks with one studio about doing that “someday, and doing it according to the book. … I would like to see it done in the right time period and stick true to the book.” (The book was set in the 1940s; the 1995 TV movie was set in 1995.) To the best of his recollection, Evans ...
Evans graduated from Cottonwood High School in Murray City, Utah. He graduated with a B.A. degree 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.
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