John Henry Evans (April 8, 1872 – March 24, 1947)[1] was an early-20th century Mormon educator and writer, most known for his 1933 biography Joseph Smith, An American Prophet, published by Macmillan.
[1] In 1900 Evans married Amy Jane Whipple, who served on the Relief Society general board starting in 1921.
[1] In 1912 Evans published with B. H. Roberts a work on the Spaulding theory of the origins of the Book of Mormon.
[3] Evans also wrote some of the entries included in Andrew Jenson's Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia.
Evans authored Joseph Smith, An American Prophet as well as Messages and Characters of the Book of Mormon (with his son John Henry Evans, Jr.), The Story of Utah (1933), One Hundred Years of Mormonism and biographies of Ezra T. Benson and Charles C. Rich.