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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.

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

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