sentences:  Speakers at his funeral included Heber J.Grant (LDS Church president at the time, and with whom Anderson had always remained close), George Albert Smith, Joseph Fielding Smith, John A. Widtsoe, Anthony W. Ivins, Rudger Clawson, and several other prominent LDS leaders of the period.In a piece in The Improvement Era entitled "A Plea for Fiction" (1898), Anderson wrote of the Mormon experience- "What a field is here for the pen of the novelist."