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Richard H. Cracroft

Cracroft is Emeritus Professor of English at Brigham Young University, where for years he directed the Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature and edited Literature and Belief. He has been a major figure in Mormon literature for many years as an author, teacher, critic, review, and editor. He has also served as chairman of the English department, dean of the College of Humanities at BYU, and president of the Association for Mormon Letters. Along with Neal Lambert, he initiated BYU's course "The Literature of the Latter-day Saints," and they together published two two anthologies of Mormon Literature, A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints and 22 Young Mormon Writers. He is well known for his review of current Mormon literary publications in a regular column in BYU Magazine.
LDS
LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
President of the Zurich, Switzerland Mission (1986-1989)
University of Utah, B.A., M.A. English University of Wisconson-Madison, Ph.D., English
Author, Editor
In 2000 Cracroft was granted honorarly lifetime membership in the Association for Mormon Letters.

27 Works by Richard H. Cracroft

Title Role Year Genre
A Believing People Editor 1974
22 Young Mormon Writers Editor 1975
A Timely Resurrection Author Unassigned
The Patterns of My Faith Author Personal Essay
Eugene the Guileless Author Tribute
That My Soul Might See Author Short Story
[Review of] Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems, edited by Eugene England and Dennis Clark Author Review
Anne Parry's Tathea Author Review
"Polishing God's Altars" Author Review
Out of Darkness into Light: A Novel Approach Author Review
Through a Glass, Brightly Author Review
[Review of] The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy by Terry L. Givens Author Review
A Timely Resurrection Author Review
[Review of] Pillar of Light: A Historical Novel, by Gerald N. Lund Author Review
[Review of] Goodbye, Hello by Marilyn Brown Author Review
[Review of] Heaven Knows Why Author Review
[Review of] The Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball Author Review
The Discomforter Author Tribute
On the Way to Obsession Author Review
"O What Songs of the Heart" Author Personal Essay
The Pattern of Faith and Jolts of Joy: Spiritual Surprises Author Personal Essay
We'll Sing and We'll Shout Author Personal Essay
Divine Designs Author Personal Essay
Divine Designs Author Personal Essay
Love at Home and Peace Abroad Author Review
[Review of] Orrin Porter Rockwell: Man of God, Son of Thunder, 2d ed., by Harold Schindler Author Review
[Review of] Women's Voices: An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints 1830-1900 edited by Kenneth W. Godfrey, Audrey M. Godfrey, and Jill Mulvay Derr Author Review
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