Signature Books, 2023 Paper: 978-1-56085-458-6 | eISBN: 978-1-56085-437-1 Library of Congress Classification PS3537.O594Z57 2023 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In the 1940s she was a New York Times bestselling author—of Mormon novels. In the 1950s she won a Newbery Medal, the highest honor in children’s literature. But today, hardly anyone knows her name.
Who is Virginia Sorensen? How did a girl who grew up in a tiny Utah town in the 1920s become a globetrotting, award-winning author? And why has she been forgotten?
Though she wrote them four generations ago, Sorensen’s novels are more urgent today than ever, addressing issues both Mormons and former Mormons grapple with. Her body of work is a treasure trove of insight, compassion, and storytelling waiting to be rediscovered.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Stephen Carter is a three-time winner of an Association for Mormon Letters Award: once for his personal essay “The Calling,” once for iPlates: Prophets, Priests, Rebels, and Kings (a graphic novel adaptation of Mosiah chapters from the Book of Mormon, co-authored and illustrated by Jett Atwood), and once for Moth & Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death (Signature Books, 2017), which he compiled and edited. He is director of publications for the Sunstone Education Foundation and has a PhD in narrative studies. He lives with his family in Orem, Utah.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1: Her Life Begins
2: Her Career Begins
3: Her Career Begins Again
4: She Diversifies
5: She Travels ... and Meets Alec
6: Her Best and Worst Years
7: Her Career Ends ... and Is Remembered
8: Mormonism's "New Pioneers"
9: Her Novels
10: Her Children's Novels
Epilogue
Index