Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich recently retired from Harvard University. She received the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for her book A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990). Her latest book is A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835–1870 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017).