A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints, edited by Richard H. Cracroft and Neal E. Lambert, and published in 1974, was "the first significant anthology of the literature of the Latter-day Saints" and began the establishment of the field of Mormon literature as a legitimate discipline, and remains, according to A Motley Vision in 2012, " the only comprehensive Mormon Literature anthology ever published." Cracroft and Lambert released an anthology with a more modern focus, 22 Young Mormon Writers, the following year.Three writers appear in both A Believing People and 22 Young Mormon Writers: Ann Doty, Clifton Holt Jolley, and Linda Sillitoe.

Included authors The collection includes works of many sorts (letters, poetry, sermons, etc.), mostly from LDS authors, but also some by those friendly to the Mormons (e.g. Thomas L. Kane) or with early-life connections (e.g. Ina Coolbrith) or similarly tangential relationships. Authors are listed alphabetically. Works without a listed author are not reflected in this list.

History Lucy Mack Smith Joseph Smith Jr. B. H. Roberts Thomas L. Kane Leonard J. Arrington James E. Talmage

Biography and Autobiography Parley P. Pratt John Taylor Daniel W. Jones S. A. Kenner Florence A. Merriam Bailey Karl G. Maeser Juanita Brooks

Letters Joseph Smith Jr. Brigham Young Ursulia B. Hascall Irene Hascall Pomeroy Ellen Spencer Clawson

Journals and Diaries Hosea Stout William Clayton Mary Goble Pay Priddy Meeks Joseph Smith Black

Discourses Joseph Smith Jr. Brigham Young Orson Pratt J. Golden Kimball B. H. Roberts Gordon B. Hinckley

The Essay Orson F. Whitney William Mulder Parley A. Christensen Robert K. Thomas Hugh Nibley Truman G. Madsen Edward Geary

Nineteenth-Century Poetry William W. Phelps Joseph Smith Jr. John Lyon Joel H. Johnson Eliza R. Snow Parley P. Pratt Cyrus H. Wheelock William Clayton John Jaques Charles W. Penrose Richard Smyth Ina Coolbrith Augusta Joyce Crocheron Joseph L. Townsend Orson F. Whitney Josephine Spencer

Twentieth-Century Poetry S. Dilworth Young Vesta Pierce Crawford Christie Lund Coles Veneta Leatham Nielsen Arthur Henry King Edward L. Hart Marden J. Clark Lael W. Hill May Swenson Clinton F. Larson Max Golightly R. Paul Cracroft Emma Lou Thayne John Sterling Harris David L. Wright Thomas Asplund Harrison Davis Nolyn Hardy Marilyn McMeen Miller Robert A. Christmas Carol Lynn Pearson Charis Southwell Clifton Holt Jolley Dennis Drake Dennis Marden Clark Helen Walker Jones Linda Sillitoe Ann Doty Naomi W. Randall

Fiction Parley P. Pratt Josephine Spencer Nephi Anderson Virginia Sorensen Eileen G. Kump Douglas H. Thayer Donald R. Marshall

The Novel Nephi Anderson Vardis Fisher Maurine Whipple

Drama Clinton F. Larson Martin Kelly

Notes

References

External links Archive.org's online text of A Believing People