About the Author

Lavina Fielding Anderson, president of Editing, Inc., is a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of Signature Books, former trustee of the Mormon Alliance and, with Janice M. Allred, co-­editor of the Case Reports of the Mormon Alliance. She is former editor and/or copy editor of the Journal of Mormon History, the Association for Mormon Letters Annual, the Ensign, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. She is the editor of Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir (Signature Books, 2001) and is currently researching Lucy's Life: A Biography of Lucy Mack Smith. She is the recipient of the Grace Fort Arrington Award for Distinguished Service (1991), the O. Marvin Lewis Award for Best Essay (1995), the Special Merit Award for Exceptional Service (1995), the Eve Award (1999), and co-recipient of the John Whitmer Historical Association award for Outstanding Bibliographical Essays (2005).