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  • by Andrew Hall
  • Posted on November 25, 2025November 25, 2025

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher (1935-2025): AML’s founding president

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  • Posted on October 31, 2023

In Memoriam: Lavina Fielding Anderson

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  • by Andrew Hall
  • Posted on February 28, 2023February 28, 2023

“Flaming Breath of Truth”: Search of Mormon Author (Mormon literature in 1969)

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  • Posted on October 5, 2021October 5, 2021

In Memoriam: AML co-founder Steven P. Sondrup

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  • by Michael Andrew Ellis
  • Posted on October 20, 2020October 20, 2020

Call for Volunteers: AML Initiatives October 2020-April 2021

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  • by Theric Jepson
  • Posted on June 15, 2020

Passing of the guard

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  • by Andrew Hall
  • Posted on August 28, 2019November 25, 2025

Spencer W. Kimball and the founding of the Association for Mormon Letters

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AML Conference 2019
  • by Michael Andrew Ellis
  • Posted on February 22, 2019February 24, 2019

AML Conference Program for 2019

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  • Crosby, Richards, “Latter-day Eloquence: Two Centuries of Mormon Oratory” (Reviewed by Kevin Folkman)
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  • Hess, “World Running Down” (Reviewed by Andrew Hamilton)
  • Bergevin, Hall, “Enough Elizabeth’s” (Reviewed by Andrew Hamilton)
  • Nielson, “A Barn Full of Angels: The Spiritual World and Pioneer Journey of Zerah Pulsipher” (Reviewed by Melvin Clarno Johnson)
  • Becerra, et al. “Picturing Christ: Understanding Depictions of Jesus in History and Art” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Oman, “Living Oracles: Law and the Latter-day Saint Tradition” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)

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