Maurine Whipple

MAURINE WHIPPLE (1903–1992) was a novelist, essayist, and short story author best known for her historical novel The Giant Joshua (1941). She also created the illustrated guide This is the Place: Utah (1945) and wrote articles that appeared in Life, Look, Collier’s, and Saturday Evening Post. A Craving for Beauty: The Collected Writings of Maurine Whipple (edited by Veda Hale, Andrew Hall, and Lynne Larson) was recently published by By Common Consent Press.