Virginia Sorensen - Pioneering Mormon Author

In the 1940s she was a New York Times bestselling author--of Mormon novels. In the 1950s she won a Newbery Medal, the highest honor in children's literature. But today, hardly anyone knows her name.

Who is Virginia Sorensen? How did a girl who grew up in a tiny Utah town in the 1920s become a globetrotting, award-winning author? And why has she been forgotten?

​Though she wrote them four generations ago, Sorensen's novels are more urgent today than ever, addressing issues both Mormons and former Mormons grapple with. Her body of work is a treasure trove of insight, compassion, and storytelling waiting to be rediscovered.

About the author

Stephen Carter is a three-time winner of an Association for Mormon Letters Award: once for his personal essay "The Calling," once for iPlates: Prophets, Priests, Rebels, and Kings (a graphic novel adaptation of Mosiah chapters from the Book of Mormon, co-authored and illustrated by Jett Atwood), and once for Moth & Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death (Signature Books, 2017), which he compiled and edited. He is director of publications for the Sunstone Education Foundation and has a PhD in narrative studies. He lives with his family in Orem, Utah.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Carter
• Publisher: Signature Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781560854586
• ISBN: 978-1-56085-458-6
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies