A Craving for Beauty: The Collected Writings of Maurine Whipple, edited by Veda Hale, Andrew Hall, and Lynne Larson, has been published in October 2020 by By Common Consent Press.
Maurine Whipple (1903-1992) was the author of the great Mormon novel The Giant Joshua (1941). She wrote many other remarkable short fiction pieces and magazine articles over the years, only a few of which have been published. This volume collects her published stories and her best previously unpublished work, including magazine stories about some fascinating people and places in extreme corners of the intermountain west, reporting from within Short Creek during the 1953 polygamy raid, a war-era lecture questioning war, racism, and patriarchy, several excellent short stories, and five chapters of Cleave the Wood, the unfinished sequel to The Giant Joshua.
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