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.
- Leonard J. Arrington
- Thomas Asplund
- Florence A. Merriam Bailey
- Joseph Smith Black
- Juanita Brooks
- Parley A. Christensen
- Robert A. Christmas
- Marden J. Clark
- Ellen Spencer Clawson
- William Clayton
- Christie Lund Coles
- Ina Coolbrith
- R. Paul Cracroft
- Vesta Pierce Crawford
- Augusta Joyce Crocheron
- Ann Doty
- Dennis Drake
- Edward Geary
- Max Golightly
- Nolyn Hardy
- John Sterling Harris
- Edward L. Hart
- Ursulia B. Hascall
- George Armstrong Hicks
- Lael W. Hill
- Gordon B. Hinckley
- John Jaques
- Joel H. Johnson
- Clifton Holt Jolley
- Daniel W. Jones
- Helen Walker Jones
- Thomas L. Kane
- Martin Kelly
- S. A. Kenner
- J. Golden Kimball
- Arthur Henry King
- Clinton F. Larson
- John Lyon
- Truman G. Madsen
- Karl G. Maeser
- Priddy Meeks
- Marilyn McMeen Miller
- William Mulder
- Hugh Nibley
- Veneta Leatham Nielsen
- Mary Goble Pay
- Carol Lynn Pearson
- Charles W. Penrose
- William W. Phelps
- Irene Hascall Pomeroy
- Orson Pratt
- Parley P. Pratt
- Naomi W. Randall
- B. H. Roberts
- Linda Sillitoe
- Joseph Smith Jr.
- Lucy Mack Smith
- Richard Smyth
- Eliza R. Snow
- Charis Southwell
- Josephine Spencer
- Hosea Stout
- May Swenson
- James E. Talmage
- John Taylor
- Emma Lou Thayne
- Robert K. Thomas
- Joseph L. Townsend
- Cyrus H. Wheelock
- Orson F. Whitney
- David L. Wright
- Brigham Young
- S. Dilworth Young
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Larson, 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
- Archive.org's online text of A Believing People