Mary Lythgoe Bradford

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Mary Lythgoe Bradford (born 24 October 1930) is an editor and poet significant to Mormon literature. She was the editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought from 1978 to 1983, edited Mormon Women Speak (1982), and was included on the "75 Significant Mormon Poets" list compiled by and .[1] She was the first Mormon critic to engage scholarly with the work of Virginia Sorensen[2] and has written about other authors such as Hugh Nibley and Lowell L. Bennion. Her work has appeared in many religious and regional magazines, journals and anthologies.

Life[]

Bradford was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. She earned a B.A. and a M.A. from the University of Utah, where she taught English, as was as at Brigham Young University. She also taught writing briefly at American University in Washington, D.C..

Bradford book Leaving Home: Personal Essays won the 1998 Association for Mormon Letters personal essay award. She wrote the biography titled Lowell L. Bennion: Teacher, Counselor, Humanitarian, for which she was awarded the 1995 Best Biography Award from the Mormon History Association and the for best biography.

Bradford was married to Charles Henry Bradford (died 1991), with whom she had three children.

Publications[]

  • Mormon Women Speak: A Collection of Essays (1982)
  • A Marriage of Equals (1985) with Dennis L. Lythgoe
  • Leaving Home: Personal Essays (1987)
  • Lowell L. Bennion: Teacher, Counselor, Humanitarian (1995)
  • Purple Poems (2009)
  • Mr. Mustard Plaster and Other Mormon Essays (2015)

References[]

  1. ^ 75 Significant Mormon Poets, accessed Sept. 13, 2011
  2. ^ "Mormon Literature and Creative Arts: Mary Lythgoe Bradford". Brigham Young University. Archived from the original on 9 November 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
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