L.A. Evans was born and raised in Utah. Upon graduation from High School, he joined the US Air Force where he served as a gunner on a B29 bomber during the Korean War. He received a BS Degree from the University of Utah and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin. He worked in the Aerospace industry until he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California School of Medicine (now the Keck School of Medicine at USC) in the Department of Medical Education. During his 25 years there, he coauthored three Medical School text books and over twenty-five peer-reviewed journal articles as well as several mediated instructional programs (of which many were computer based). Several of his poems are included in his novel Jonathan's Secret", which was also published in 2012 with Xlibris.
