About the Author

Growing up in Huntsville, Utah, Gary W. Toyn has traveled the globe under contract for the Defense Department, having been launched off aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf and having survived a helicopter crash in the jungles of Honduras. He has interviewed world political leaders, dissidents, and heads of state. He has also organized humanitarian relief efforts for Romanian orphanages, for the first private university in the former Soviet Union, and for struggling libraries in post-communist Eastern Europe. In all, he has worked and traveled in nearly fifty countries. He is the author of The Quiet Hero, the biography of WWII Medal of Honor recipient George Wahlen, co-compiler of Life Lessons from Fathers of Faith, author of Life Lessons from Mothers of Faith, and Divine Intervention: Inspiring True Stories from LDS Survivors.