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Richard Cracroft
RICHARD CRACROFT, Nan Osmond Grass Professor in English at Brigham Young University, is one of the most important and active critics of Mormon literature. With Neal Lambert he has edited two anthologies of Mormon Literature, A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1974; online at http://humanities.byu.edu/MLDB/abp-toc.htm) and 22 Young Mormon Writers (Provo, Utah: Communications Workshop, 1975). Cracroft continues to write numerous reviews of Mormon literature in a regular column in BYU Magazine and in other venues of Mormon criticism. A past president of the Association for Mormon Letters, he teaches Literature of the Latter-day Saints at Brigham Young University, where he currently serves as the director of the Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature.
The Schroeder Mormon Collection at the Wisconsin State Historical Library
Articles/Essays – Volume 02, No. 3
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Articles/Essays – Volume 06, No. 2
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Articles/Essays – Volume 07, No. 1
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Articles/Essays – Volume 08, No. 2
“A Profound Sense of Community”: Mormon Values in Wallace Stegner’s Recapitulation
Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 1
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Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 3