David J. Larkin, Jr. (1948- ) was born in Spokane, Washington, but grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada. He served as a Mormon missionary in Brazil (1969-1971), where, in the waning hours of his tenure there, he had a revelation. That revelation--an answer to the question, "What is truth?"--is the subject of THE BOOK OF THOMPSON: A Mormon Tragedy, available through Amazon and CreateSpace. When Larkin was an undergraduate student at Eastern Washington State College (now "University"), his Anthropology teacher drew a kinship diagram of a "typical" African tribal family on the blackboard. To illustrate h...