community.". A book with the proceedings is published annually by the Religious Studies Center in cooperation with Deseret Book. Personal life In September 1921, Sperry married Eva Lila Braithwaite. They eventually had eight children. References 1895 births 1977 deaths American Latter Day Saint writers Book of Mormon studies Brigham Young University faculty Church Educational System instructors Mormon apologists American Mormon missionaries in the United States University of Chicago alumni University of Utah alumni 20th-century Mormon missionaries University of Chicago Divinity School alumni Latter Day Saint biblical scholars Book of Mormon scholars