A Believing People
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