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MormonTimes.com: Author continues innovative work

Givens' goal is to write both honestly, fairly about church

Published: Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008 10:07 a.m. MDT
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Terryl L. Givens noticed that 19th-century authors kept using a particular stock villain: the Mormons.

"The Mormon villain became a kind of shorthand for everything America was opposed to in the 19th century," said Givens, a professor of literature and religion at the University of Richmond in Virginia.

Givens spoke with Joe Cannon, editor of the Deseret News, in an interview last week.

Read the full story, watch the video on MormonTimes.com.

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Terryl L. Givens' latest project is a biography on early LDS Church apostle Parley P. Pratt.

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