Richard H. Cracroft
Richard H. Cracroft is the Nan Osmond Grass Professor of English at Brigham Young University. He has taught American, western American, and Mormon literature at BYU since 1963. He expresses his gratitude to his capable student assistant Ryan Higgenbotham for inestimable help in carrying out research for this paper.
BYU Studies Publications
- “Cows to Milk Instead of Novels to Read”: Brigham Young, Novel Reading, and Kingdom Building
- Distorting Polygamy for Fun and Profit: Artemus Ward and Mark Twain among the Mormons
- Five books on LDS temples
- Goodbye, Hello
- Great and Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader
- Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems
- Heaven Knows Why
- Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood
- Liverpool, 1856: Nathaniel Hawthorne Meets Orson Pratt
- Love at Home and Peace Abroad: A Breakfast Conversation between Frieda and Craig
- Nephi, Seer of Modern Times: The Home Literature Novels of Nephi Anderson
- On the Way to Becoming an Authentic Reader
- Orrin Porter Rockwell: Man of God, Son of Thunder
- Orrin Porter Rockwell: Man of God, Son of Thunder, revised second edition
- Pillar of Light: A Historical Novel
- Rendering the Ineffable Effable: Treating Joseph Smith’s First Vision in Imaginative Literature
- The Gentle Blasphemer: Mark Twain, Holy Scripture, and the Book of Mormon
- The Price
- Trilogy of photographic essays
- Women’s Voices: An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830–1900