[…] it’s been reworked and thoroughly adapted as a short story. I understand the appeal. I prefer novel writing myself. But chances are that I will be able to recognize a cut-and-pasted novel chapter, and […]
[…] it from me. Question. Are you sure that he had the plates at the time you were writing for him? Answer. The plates often lay on the table without any attempt at concealment, wrapped […]
[…] is his writings on the Mormon past which we must examine in considering Roberts qua historian. Roberts’ writing on Mormon history began long before 1930. As early as 1886 he was publishing a series […]
[…] anything but, as the editor likes to say, “Buddaheads.” Religion, therefore, plays no explicit part in my reviews (though once in a review of Paint Your Wagon I did mention the Mormons), but my […]
[…] and suspicious of intellectuals. After completing his studies at the University of Chicago, Snell began researching and writing a history of ancient Israel. He began with the encouragement of Commissioner West, who planned to […]
[…] religious and scientific topics. Influential during his own lifetime, he wielded even more influence after his death. Writing for the Church’s Centennial in 1930, John Henry Evans observed: “In the first cen tury of […]
[…] relationships to the study of same-sex dynamics in nineteenth-century America. Just as men have been researching and writing about female-female relationships, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Karen V. Hansen have been among the principal contributors […]
[…] noted in his journal that “a great Deal of work yet to be done in order to get the work done by next April Conference.” In the various settlements, the diligence of the Saints […]
[…] First Presidency. Both Roberts and Smith were given opportunity to present their positions, both orally and in writing, to the Twelve and the Presidency. Roberts developed his ideas primarily from scripture, from science, and […]
[…] production of the rough beginnings of a play I’d writ ten. I’d been immersed in research and writing for eight months, planning for over twenty years, and it had been strong on my mind […]