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.
Included authors
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 in order of inclusion; if an author is included more than once in the anthology, they are listed only at their first appearance. Works without a listed author are not reflected in this list.
- Lucy Mack Smith
- Joseph Smith Jr.
- B. H. Roberts
- Thomas L. Kane
- Leonard J. Arrington
- James E. Talmage
- Parley P. Pratt
- John Taylor
- Daniel W. Jones
- S. A. Kenner
- Florence A. Merriam Bailey
- Karl G. Maeser
- Juanita Brooks
- Brigham Young
- Irene Hascall Pomeroy
- Ursulia B. Hascall
- Ellen Spencer Clawson
- Hosea Stout
- William Clayton
- Mary Goble Pay
- Priddy Meeks
- Joseph Smith Black
- Orson Pratt
- J. Golden Kimball
- Gordon B. Hinckley
- Orson F. Whitney
- William Mulder
- Parley A. Christensen
- Robert K. Thomas
- Hugh Nibley
- Truman G. Madsen
- Edward Geary
- George Armstrong Hicks
- William W. Phelps
- John Lyon
- Joel H. Johnson
- Eliza R. Snow
- Cyrus H. Wheelock
- John Jaques
- Charles W. Penrose
- Richard Smyth
- Ina Coolbrith
- Augusta Joyce Crocheron
- Joseph L. Townsend
- Josephine Spencer
- 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
- Nolyn Hardy
- Marilyn McMeen Miller
- Robert A. Christmas
- Carol Lynn Pearson
- Charis Southwell
- Clifton Holt Jolley
- Dennis Drake
- Helen Walker Jones
- Linda Sillitoe
- Ann Doty
- Naomi W. Randall
- Martin Kelly
References
- ^ Eugene England. "[Volume 15:3 (Spring 1975) A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints]." BYU Studies.Volume 15:3 (Spring 1975). Accessed May 26, 2013.
- ^ Larson, Kent. "Sunday Lit Crit Sermon: Richard H. Cracroft on what makes a poem ‘Mormon’." A Motley Vision. Sept. 23, 2012. Accessed May 26, 2013.
External links
- Archive.org's online text of A Believing People