She is a Latter Day Saint scholar, writer, editor, and feminist. Anderson is also one of the September 6.
Lavina Fielding
LDS
Excommunicated from the LDS church.
Paul L. Anderson
Christian
Anderson is one of the original trustees of the Mormon Alliance, founded in 1992 to document allegations of spiritual and ecclesiastical abuse in the LDS Church. In 1993, Anderson published a chronology documenting cases of what she regarded as spiritual abuse by LDS church leaders during the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s. This article became grounds for her excommunication on charges of apostasy in September 1993, as one of the September Six. Anderson remains as active in the LDS Church as her excommunicant status allows; she has been described by Levi S. Peterson (1996) as exemplary of an emerging "church in exile" composed of faithful excommunicants.
1944
Anderson holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington.
Anderson is past president of the Association for Mormon Letters (1981), former associate editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, president of Editing, Inc., and editor of the Journal of Mormon History.
Female
Author, Editor
English
Honorary Lifetime Membership Award, The Association for Mormon Letters, 2002