One of the great historians of Mormonism, Ardis E. Parshall, passed away Sunday at age 66. We at the Association for Mormon Letters join her many friends who are mourning her. Many of us were blessed by her friendship and spirit of cooperation. When we told her our research interests, she would often send documents or references from her vast collection that she thought would help. Ardis participated in AML events at least since 1995, when she was an active participant in the AML-listserve.
As a part of her work on history, she did considerable work on Mormon literature.
She has won two AML Awards, the first in 2010 for her essay “Beards” on her blog Keppapitchinin.
Then in 2022, she received a Special Award in Publishing for The Corianton Saga: From Short Story to Stage Play to Movie Script. In it, she brought together and annotated five adaptations of the narrative of the Book of Mormon character Corianton, written by four creators: B. H. Roberts, Julia A. MacDonald, Orestes U. Bean, and Zoan E. Houtz Bean.
Among her other literature related books are:
Co-editing and annotating, with Michael Austin, the Mormon Image in Literature series for Greg Kofford Books. The series included three volumes, published in 2016 and 2017: The Mormoness; Or, The Trials Of Mary Maverick: A Narrative Of Real Events (originally published in 1853). Boadicea; the Mormon Wife: Life Scenes in Utah (originally published in 1855). Dime Novel Mormons. A 
collection of four full-length dime novels which represented different aspects of the Mormon image, originally published from 1870 to 1903, with detailed introductions of each by Austin and Parshall. It won the 2018 Best Anthology Book Award, John Whitmer Historical Association.
Song of Names: A Mormon Mosaic (2020). Co-written with James Goldberg. A collection of histories and poems about the lives of twenty-two ordinary Latter-day Saints.
Josephine Spencer: Her Collected Works, Volume 1, 1887–1899 (2020). Co-edited with Michael Austin. Part of BCC Press’ Classics in Mormon Literature series, collecting the stories and poems of Josephine Spencer (1861-1928), who the editors claimed “may be the most significant figure in Mormon letters that most people today have never heard of”. It was a finalist for the AML 2020 Criticism Award.
We were blessed by her presence, and look forward to meeting her again.