William Mulder

WILLIAM MULDER, Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at the University of Utah, is the author of Homeward to Zion: The Mormon Migration from Scandinavia and co-editor of Among the Mormons: Historic Accounts by Contemporary Observers. He has authored numerous articles and essays on America and American literature, including the essay "Mormonism and Literature." He served fourteen years as editor of Western Humanities Review and was for many years fiction editor of Dialogue.

Problems of the Mormon Intellectual

Articles/Essays – Volume 05, No. 3

A continuing problem of the Mormon intellectual is to remain both Mormon and intellectual. His is the problem of religious intellectuals generally—to dare to follow where the mind leads, to prevent the indecision that comes…

Fatherly Advice | Dean C. Jessee, ed., My Dear Son: Letters of Brigham Young to His Sons

Articles/Essays – Volume 09, No. 4

The fiddles are tuning in Mormon historiography. Not only is there a great deal of activity as new histories are written and old classics revived; there is, more importantly, a new professionalism. Mormon scholars have…

Humor and Pathos: Stories of the Mormon Diaspora | Neal Chandler, Benediction: A Book of Stories

Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 4

A late review has the advantage of calling a good book to the attention of any one who may have missed it the first time around, and of reaffirming what time has already proved—its lasting…

Telling It Slant: Aiming for Truth in Contemporary Mormon Literature

Articles/Essays – Volume 26, No. 2

History, Memory and Imagination in Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen’s Kingdom Come

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 1