[1][2] Born in Layton, Utah, Sill was a Mormon missionary in the southern United States from 1924 to 1926.

Readers of Mr. Sill's twenty-one books and listeners to his many radio broadcasts will welcome this new volume...

...Entering the insurance business as a salesman for New York Life in 1927, he rose quickly in the company.

Mr. Sill served on the Board of Regents at the University of Utah and a building on the campus is named in his honor.

In 1960 he was awarded the Carnegie Hero Medal for helping to save a thirteen year old boy from drowning in the ocean."