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Mary Lythgoe Bradford

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The former editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (1978–83), Mary is the author of two books, Leaving Home: Personal Essays (which won the 1998 Association for Mormon Letters personal essay award) and Lowell L. Bennion: Teacher, Counselor, Humanitarian (1995). She has also edited a collection of essays, Mormon Women Speak (1982), and written widely on the novelist Virginia Sorensen. Her University of Utah master’s thesis was the first scholarly work by a Mormon on Virginia Sorensen. Her own essays, articles, and poetry have appeared in Dialogue, Exponent II, BYU Studies, Utah Holiday, Deseret News, and in many other books and journals. Mary was raised in Utah but spent the majority of her adult life in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband Charles Bradford and their three children. [from Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems from Mormon Women, 105] Included in 75 Significant Mormon Poets
Mary L. Bradford
LDS
LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Poetry on page 156 of the autumn 1996 Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.
1930-10-24
University of Utah
Mary Lythgoe Bradford has played a significant role in the development of Mormon literature, particularly as a past editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (1976-1982) and as an essayist, biographer, critic, poet, and teacher. She has given important emphasis to the personal essay genre, editing several compilations in that form and publishing a seminal article about the personal essay. Bradford’s writings have appeared in Dialogue, Exponent II, Sunstone, BYU Studies, BYU Today, the Ensign, the New Era, the Deseret News, Utah Holiday, This People, Commonweal, The John Whitmer History Association Journal, The Utah Historical Quarterly, and The Western Humanities Review. Her essays have appeared in the book-length collections, A Thoughtful Faith: Essays on Belief by Mormon Scholars (ed. Philip Barlow) and A Time to Weep and a Time to Sing: Faith Journeys of Women Scholars of Religion (ed. by Mary Jo Meadow and Carole A. Rayburn). Her poems have appeared in two anthologies: Where Feelings Flower (ed. by Barbara Smith and Shirley Thomas), and Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems (ed. by Eugene England and Dennis Clark). (See the bibliography below)
Female
Author, Editor
English
Bradford has also published works not related to the Church in the Ensign and Dialogue Journal.

57 Works by Mary Lythgoe Bradford

Title Role Year Genre
Regretfully Request Author Poetry
Letting Go Author Poetry
Buffers Author Poetry
Heritage Author Poetry
Joseph Author 1966 Poetry
The Difference Author 1966 Poetry
Triad Author Poetry
Holy Thursday Author 1974 Poetry
Chant for Growing Older Author 1976 Poetry
You Kept Me From Falling Author 1976 Poetry
The Grammarian Blows Her Mind Author 1976 Poetry
If You Are a Writer You Write! Author Interview / Panel
An Hour in the Grove Author Personal Essay
I, Eye, Aye Author Personal Essay
You Look Just Like Carol Lynn Pearson Author Unassigned
Virginia Sorensen Author Criticism
Send for the Sisters Author
In Process Author Personal Essay
Born Again Author 1984 Poetry
At Sea With Children Author Poetry
Mormon Women Speak Editor 1982 Personal Essay
Leaving Home Author 1987 Personal Essay
Personal Voices Editor 1987 Personal Essay
A Conversation with Hugh Nibley Author Interview / Panel
Letter to Gene, My Eternal Brother Author Letter
Coming Apart Together Author Poetry
My Ten-day Mission Author Personal Essay
Virginia Sorensen Author Criticism
In Memoriam Virginia Sorensen Author Tribute
[Review of] Fresh Meat/Warm Weather by Joyce Eliason Author Review
[Review of] Mr. Wahlquist in Yellowstone and Other Stories, by Douglas H. Thayer Author Review
Cat Author Poetry
The Beautiful Author Poetry
My Childhood Calls Me Author 1977 Poetry
Assuagement Author Poetry
Poems Author Poetry
Pillows of My Faith Author Personal Essay
My Childhood Calls Me Author Poetry
Now That Summer is Here Author Personal Essay
A Ten Day Expert Speaks Author Personal Essay
Girl of the Limberlost and Lonesome Pine Author Personal Essay
Comfort in the Knowing Author Personal Essay
The Diary Chain Author Personal Essay
Retreat Moments Author Personal Essay
Gentle Dad Author 2009 Poetry
Relinquishing Author 2009 Poetry
Oceanography Author 2009 Poetry
One Tree Redux Author 2008 Poetry
The wood Author 2007 Poetry
One tree Author 2007 Poetry
Gene, My Eternal Brother Author 2004 Poetry
Movement Author 2004 Poetry
Widow's Weeds Author 1998 Poetry
Soft Sculpture Author 1998 Poetry
Joseph Loved His Women Author 1998 Poetry
Women Are the Keepers of Secrets Author 1998 Poetry
The Word Author 2007 Poetry
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