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Heidi Sorensen Swinton (born 1948) is an author, screenwriter and historian who has written several books to accompany historical documentaries created by film-maker Lee Groberg.

Swinton was born in Salt Lake City to Frederick Christian Sorensen and his wife Harriet Horne. Swinton is a stepdaughter of Leonard J. Arrington.

Swinton is a descendant of George A. Smith. Her and her husband, Jeffrey C. Swinton, also a descendant of George A. Smith, spent their honeymoon in England seeking for where in England the earliest Smith ancestors came from.

Swinton is a Latter-day Saint. She served for a time as a member of the Relief Society General Board as well as at different times as both a Primary and Young Women president at the ward level. Her husband Jeffrey has served as an Area Authority Seventy, stake president and bishop in the LDS Church. He spent his career as a lawyer, working for the Salt Lake City lawfirm of Stoker and Swinton at the time they were called to preside over the England London South Mission in 2006.

Swinton attended the University of Utah and the Madill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Among works that Swinton has contributed writing to are Trail of Hope, American Prophet, Sacred Stone which was the story of the Nauvoo Temple, Sweetwater Rescue, and America's Choir about the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. She also written biographies of D. Arthur Haycock and Joseph Anderson. She has also co-authored articles on buildings such as the Hotel Utah and the Relief Society Building.

From 2006-2009 she was serving as a missionary in England along with her husband Jeffrey Swinton who was president of the England London South Mission. While in England Swinton contributed a column to Meridian Magazine entitled "Mission Mum".

Heidi and Jeffrey Swinton are the parents of five sons.

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