Robert Kirby

Raised in a military family, Robert Kirby has lived in Europe and most of the western United States. He is a graduate of Skyline High School in Salt Lake City, and attended Weber State College, in Ogden, Utah. He served an LDS mission to Uruguay in 1973-1975, after which he married Irene Jones from Calgary, Alberta. They now live in Herriman, Utah without their three daughters, whom they raised in Springville, Utah, but with their mean dog. In 1979, Kirby attended the Utah Police Academy. He...See more

Raised in a military family, Robert Kirby has lived in Europe and most of the western United States. He is a graduate of Skyline High School in Salt Lake City, and attended Weber State College, in Ogden, Utah. He served an LDS mission to Uruguay in 1973-1975, after which he married Irene Jones from Calgary, Alberta. They now live in Herriman, Utah without their three daughters, whom they raised in Springville, Utah, but with their mean dog. In 1979, Kirby attended the Utah Police Academy. He was a police officer for eleven years until he resigned to become the editor of the Utah County Journal. After a year, Kirby voluntarily became assistant editor in order to devote more time to writing fiction. Kirby's work has appeared in a number of law enforcement magazines under the name of John "Blitz" Kreeg. For two years he wrote a weekly column in the Springville Herald under the pseudonym, Mark Conroy. Brigham's Bees is Kirby's first novel. His second novel, Dark Angel, is also available from Leicester Bay Books along with his numerous books on humor derived from his tenure as the Editorial Columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune over the last several decades. See less