CONTRIBUTORS LAVINA FIELDING ANDERSON, president of Editing, Inc., in Salt Lake City, Utah, edits the Journal of Mormon History, coedits with Janice Allred the Case Reports of the Mormon Alliance, and edits the AMI Annual of the As- sociation for Mormon Letters. An earlier version of her essay, "A Minis- try of Blessing: Nicholas Groesbeck Smith," was presented at the Sunstone Symposium, August 1997, in Salt Lake City, Utah. DAN BISCHOF is a third-year law student at Northwestern School of Law in Portland, Oregon. MARY LYTHGOE BRADFORD is the author of Lowell L. Bennion: Teacher, Coun- selor, Humanitarian (Dialogue Foundation, 1995). NEWELL G. BRINGHURST is Instructor of History and Political Science at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California. Involved in an ambivalent twenty-eight-year relationship with Mormon studies, he is currently president-elect of the Mormon History Association and the author of three books and some thirty articles. His latest book, Altered Lives: Fawn McKay Brodie and the Craft of Modern Biography, is forthcoming from the University of Oklahoma Press in 1999. He thanks the following individu- als whose help was essential in preparing "The Private versus the Public David O. McKay: Profile of a Complex Personality": Craig L. Foster, Frederick S. Buchanan, Michael Marquardt, Gregory Prince, Ronald Romig, Roy Webb, and Mary Jane Woodger. SUSAN BURDETT teaches English at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. CLAUDE J. BURTENSHAW is a former vice president (1962-80) of Utah State University in Logan, where he is currently Professor Emeritus of Political Science. MARILYN BUSHMAN-CARLTON'S first book of poems, on keeping things small, was published by Signature Books in 1995. Her second collection, Cheat Grass, funded in part by the Utah Arts Council, is nearing completion. She was awarded a prize in 1997 from the Utah Arts Council for a group of ten poems, and has been published in local and national journals. She and her husband, Blaine, live in Salt Lake City, Utah, and are the parents of five grown children. MICHAEL R. COLLINGS is professor of English, director of creative writing, and poet-in-residence at Seaver College, Pepperdine University. Author of a number of poetry collections, in addition to scholarly studies of Or- son Scott Card, Stephen King, and other fantasy/science-fiction writers. He is also the organist in his Thousand Oaks, California, ward. He and his wife, Judith, have four children and are expecting their first grand- child this year. BRENT D. CORCORAN lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. JESSIE L. EMBRY is Assistant Director of the Charles Redd Center for 202 Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought Western Studies and an instructor of history at Brigham Young Univer- sity, Provo, Utah. SHELDON GREAVES is a technical writer and independent scholar living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds a Ph.D. in ancient Near Easter stud- ies from the University of California, Berkeley. LEWIS HORNE lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. LARRY N. JENSEN, Ed.D., is a retired public school administrator and lives in Davis County, Utah. JAMES W. LUCAS is a business lawyer practicing in New York City and co- author (with Warmer P. Woodworth) of Working Toward Zion: Principles of the United Order for the Modern World. BRYANT H. MCGILL lives and writes in Spring City, Utah. CASUALENE MEYER holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, and a Ph.D. in creative writing from the Univer- sity of Southern Mississippi. She lives in Purvis, Mississippi, with her husband and two children. TODD ROBERT PETERSEN is a Ph.D. candidate at Oklahoma State University in creative writing and critical theory. Aside from his duties as fiction edi- tor for Cimarron Review, he is editor-in-chief of the theoretical journal Common. PETER RICHARDSON teaches fifth grade in Los Angeles and lives with his wife, Heather, in Altadena, California. BRIAN STUY is the publisher of the five-volume compilation Collected Dis- courses. He is currently working on a comprehensive, annotated index to the twenty-six-volume Journal of Discourses. He and his wife live in Lehi, Utah, with their daughter Meikina. DAN VOGEL is the author of Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon, Reli- gious Seekers and the Advent of Mormonism, and the multi-volume Early Mormon Documents. "'The Prophet Puzzle' Revisited" was delivered at the Mormon History Association Meeting, 18 May 1996, Snowbird, Utah. He lives in Westerville, Ohio, with his wife, Margie, and is currently working on a biography of Joseph Smith's early life. GARY M. WATTS is a diagnostic radiologist and nuclear medicine physi- cian at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, Provo, Utah. He and his wife, Millie, are the co-chairs of Family Fellowship, a support group for parents of gays and lesbians. WILLIAM A. WILSON is past director of the Charles Redd Center for West- ern Studies and currently professor emeritus at Brigham Young Univer- sity, Provo, Utah. FORTHCOMING IN Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought WINTER 1998 '"One Flesh': A Historical Overview of Latter-day Saint Sexuality and Psychology/' by Eric G. Swedin "Sex and Prophetic Power: A Comparison of John Humphrey Noyes, Founder of the Oneida Community with Joseph Smith, Jr., the Mormon Prophet," by Lawrence Foster "Determinist Mansions in the Mormon House," by L. Rex Sears "Making Model Students: Ernest Wilkinson and the Transformation of BYU's Honor Code," by Bryan Waterman "Reflections on Mormon History: Zion and the Anti-Legal Tradition," by Edwin B. 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