AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Daniel D. Evans
Dan was born in West New York, New Jersey in 1949. His father was a WWII Navy veteran, his mother a Shelby, Michigan farm girl. The family moved to Fremont, California in 1955, where Dan played football, basketball, and baseball at Irvington High. In 1967, at age eighteen, he was drafted by the Houston Astros and played in their minor league system until an ulnar collateral ligament injury cut his career short. After serving a mission in Australia, he attended Chabot Junior College, met and married Sharon Rose Castor in the LDS Oakland Temple. They have six children, eight grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
Dan attended Brigham Young University, majoring in Journalism and Sports Broadcasting. He traveled with the Cougar baseball team as a color commentator on KONI radio in Spanish Fork, Utah, earning his BA degree. He added a M. Ed through the University of Phoenix.
He was awared 1st Place in the Write-On St. George Winter Writiung Contest in 2025 for The Farralon Inversion; his non-fiction work, Dan’s Way, was accepted by Dorrance Publishing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is set for publication and and distribution in April 2026.
Dan and Sharon are empty-nesters, living on modest acreage south of the Virgin River in Washington, Utah with their Labradoodles. Dan enjoys trekking the nearby northern edge of the Mojave with his sidekick Doodles, Bro and Brownie, photographing and identifying thus far over 250 species of desert plants.
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