A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints, edited by Richard H. Cracroft and Neal E. Lambert, and published in 1974, was "the first significant anthology of the literature of the Latter-day Saints"[1] and began the establishment of the field of Mormon literature as a legitimate discipline, and remains, according to A Motley Vision in 2012, " the only comprehensive Mormon Literature anthology ever published."[2] Cracroft and Lambert released an anthology with a more modern focus, 22 Young Mormon Writers, the following year.[note 1]
Included authors edit
The collection includes works of many sorts (letters, poetry, sermons, etc.), mostly from LDS authors, but also some by those friendly to the Mormons (e.g. Thomas L. Kane) or with early-life connections (e.g. Ina Coolbrith) or similarly tangential relationships. Authors are listed alphabetically. Works without a listed author are not reflected in this list.
History edit
Biography and Autobiography edit
- Parley P. Pratt
- John Taylor
- Daniel W. Jones
- S. A. Kenner
- Florence A. Merriam Bailey
- Karl G. Maeser
- Juanita Brooks
Letters edit
- Joseph Smith Jr.
- Brigham Young
- Ursulia B. Hascall
- Irene Hascall Pomeroy
- Ellen Spencer Clawson
Journals and Diaries edit
- Hosea Stout
- William Clayton
- Mary Goble Pay
- Priddy Meeks
- Joseph Smith Black
Discourses edit
The Essay edit
- Orson F. Whitney
- William Mulder
- Parley A. Christensen
- Robert K. Thomas
- Hugh Nibley
- Truman G. Madsen
- Edward Geary
Nineteenth-Century Poetry edit
- William W. Phelps
- Joseph Smith Jr.
- John Lyon
- Joel H. Johnson
- Eliza R. Snow
- Parley P. Pratt
- Cyrus H. Wheelock
- William Clayton
- John Jaques
- Charles W. Penrose
- Richard Smyth
- Ina Coolbrith
- Augusta Joyce Crocheron
- Joseph L. Townsend
- Orson F. Whitney
- Josephine Spencer
Twentieth-Century Poetry edit
- S. Dilworth Young
- Vesta Pierce Crawford
- Christie Lund Coles
- Veneta Leatham Nielsen
- Arthur Henry King
- Edward L. Hart
- Marden J. Clark
- Lael W. Hill
- May Swenson
- Clinton F. Larson
- Max Golightly
- R. Paul Cracroft
- Emma Lou Thayne
- John Sterling Harris
- David L. Wright
- Thomas Asplund
- Harrison Davis
- Nolyn Hardy
- Marilyn McMeen Miller
- Robert A. Christmas
- Carol Lynn Pearson
- Charis Southwell
- Clifton Holt Jolley
- Dennis Drake
- Dennis Marden Clark
- Helen Walker Jones
- Linda Sillitoe
- Ann Doty
- Naomi W. Randall
Fiction edit
- Parley P. Pratt
- Josephine Spencer
- Nephi Anderson
- Virginia Sorensen
- Eileen G. Kump
- Douglas H. Thayer
- Donald R. Marshall
The Novel edit
Drama edit
- Clinton F. Larson
- Martin Kelly
Notes edit
- ^ Three writers appear in both A Believing People and 22 Young Mormon Writers: Ann Doty, Clifton Holt Jolley, and Linda Sillitoe.
References edit
- ^ England, Eugene (Spring 1975), "Book Reviews: A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints", BYU Studies, 15 (3): 365–372, retrieved 2013-08-07
- ^ Larsen, Kent (September 23, 2012), "Sunday Lit Crit Sermon: Richard H. Cracroft on what makes a poem 'Mormon'.", A Motley Vision, retrieved 2013-08-07
External links edit
- Archive.org's online text of A Believing People