Richard Dilworth Rust

Richard Dilworth Rust is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published on nineteenth-century American authors and, for the scholarly Latter-day Saint audience, has published on the Book of Mormon as Literature in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism, BYU Studies, and Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture. In 1997, FARMS and Deseret Book brought out his book, Feasting on the Word: The Literary Testimony of the Book of Mormon. He and his wife currently serve in the Family and Church History Headquarters Mission.