About the Author

George D. Smith is a graduate of Stanford and New York University. He is the author of Nauvoo Polygamy: "... but we called it celestial marraige"and is the editor of the landmark frontier diaries of one of the most prominent Mormon pioneers (An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton) and, among other books, Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience. He has published on historical and religious topics in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Free Inquiry, Journal of Mormon History, John Whitmer Historical Journal, Sunstone, and elsewhere. He has served on the boards of the Kenyon Review, the Leakey Foundation, and National Public Radio. He is a founder and current publisher of Signature Books.