Recounts how the author became unexpectedly infatuated with Joseph Smith and the Mormon religion while working on The Mormons PBS series, describing her findings while studying Smith's engaging early writings, her temptation to convert and her discovery that an ancestor was a Mormon whose life was upended by Smith's polygamy practices. TV tie-in.
JANE BARNES, who has received fellowships from the NEA, NEH, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, has published two novels: I, Krupskaya: My Life with Lenin and Double Lives. Her essays and stories have appeared in MLLE, Mirabella, Prairie Schooner, Dialogue, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Barnes has written documentaries for American Experience, American Masters, and Frontline. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
JANE BARNES, who has received fellowships from the NEA, NEH, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, has published two novels:
I, Krupskaya: My Life with Lenin and
Double Lives. Her essays and stories have appeared in MLLE,
Mirabella,
Prairie Schooner,
Dialogue, and the
Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Barnes has written documentaries for
American Experience,
American Masters, and
Frontline. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.