Jeffrey Paul Thompson

Jeffrey Paul Thompson has a JD from Brigham Young University and a master’s of Library and Information Science from UCLA. He worked as a photo archivist at Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in Los Angeles for over a decade and was the photo editor and coauthor of the official corporate history Twentieth Century Fox: A Century of Entertainment (Lyons Press, 2017). He just published his second book Miracle on 34th Street: The Making of a Christmas Classic (Lyons Press, 2024). He has also published articles in Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem (FARMS, 2004) and Business and Religion: The Intersection of Faith and Finance (Deseret Book and Religious Studies Center, 2018). He is currently an archivist/librarian at the Church History Library of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-­day Saints in Salt Lake City.