From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V1 #440 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Monday, September 3 2001 Volume 01 : Number 440 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:36:56 -0500 From: Jonathan Langford Subject: Re: [AML] Joseph Smith Story Thom Duncan wrote (about Scott Card's _Saints_): >You need to re-read the book. None of the POV characters are Joseph. >We only know about him what other characters around him say or see him do. This turns out not to be the case. While Joseph Smith is not the central character of the book, there are several scenes that are told from his point of view. Principally, those scenes do I think have to do with polygamy: for example, the night that he consummates his marriage with Dinah Kirkham (around pages 450-475 in my edition). Margaret Young wrote: >Actually, a lot of people were offended by Scott's obvious use of Eliza R. >>Snow's experience. To which I reply: I wonder why? Because they felt it wasn't true to her experience? Because they felt that since he didn't use her name, he was somehow stealing something from her? My understanding is that Dinah Kirkham is a composite of about three early female members of the Church, Eliza R. Snow being only one of them. (I don't remember which were the others.) Certainly there's a lot in _Saints_ that's not from Eliza R. Snow's life, although the parts having to do with Dinah's relationship with Joseph and (later) Brigham Young do seem to be mostly taken from her life (so far as I can tell). I have something of the same problem with _Saints_ that I have with _The Lion in Winter_: that there's a pretty strong modern psychological interpretation placed on a story that took place during a different time, when I think that kind of framework seems somewhat out of place. But both are (in my opinion) excellent works of art. _Saints_ (in my opinion) is truly ground-breaking, particularly in how it depicts Joseph Smith's life, though as Margaret and others have pointed out it's not primarily about his life. Still, I think the best compliment Card's work could receive would be if it stimulated a lot of other artists to present their own take on Joseph Smith's life... Jonathan Langford Speaking for myself, not the List jlangfor@pressenter.com - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:47:58 -0700 From: Jerry Tyner Subject: RE: [AML] Used LDS Books for Sale? Can I get a date for this San Bernardino re-enactment? We live in Orange County, Ca. Jerry Tyner - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:13:02 -0600 From: "Jacob Proffitt" Subject: RE: [AML] Priestcraft (was: Joseph Smith Story) - ---Original Message From: Barbara Hume > At 12:13 PM 8/28/01 -0600, you wrote: > >While I'm at it, I should probably define my use of the term > >"priestcraft". Priestcraft is a peculiarly LDS sin. The phenomenon > >involves members assuming more authority than they've been given and > >buttressing that authority with often vague calls to authority. > > I'd thought of the term as referring to any false claims to divine > authority. People like Jim Jones and that fellow in Waco and What's > -his-name Bakker exercise priestcraft. They tell people > stuff, tell them it > came from God, and then use their gullible followers for > their own ends. Well, strictly speaking, you're right. The thing is, at the heart of "the brethren said" is claiming that something came from God. Church authority comes from God. Assuming more church authority than you've been given is, at it's root, claiming erroneously to speak for God. Which is why I call it priestcraft. Jacob Proffitt - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:21:56 -0600 From: margaret young Subject: Re: [AML] Used LDS Books for Sale? The biggest celebration will be on Oct. 25 (a Thursday). I think I have some publicity I can forward to the list. Let me look for it. If not, you can e-mail public affairs in Los Angeles. I'll get an address shortly. Jerry Tyner wrote: > Can I get a date for this San Bernardino re-enactment? We live in Orange > County, Ca. > > Jerry Tyner > > - > AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature > http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:49:39 -0600 From: MGA Subject: Re: [AML] Joseph Smith Story > From: "Jacob Proffitt" > You have given a number of > examples of people who you think are over-suspicious. My caution is > that a) you judge them rather harshly for not having your same balance > (as I do when I call them nuts) and b) you generalize your experiences > with them to make up a majority. >=20 > Since your related experience is counter to my own, I disagree with your > statement that the majority of church members would reject an accurate > rendition (what a lovely word for art--rending is precisely right with > its multiple connotations of reduce, purify, and concentrate) of Joseph > Smith.=20 We'll have to agree to disagree. [snip] >> For instance, a wonderful woman who I've known for >> several years borrowed a copy of the 1995 TNT mini-series >> JOSEPH starring Ben Kingsly and Lesley Anne Warren. The >> acting and directing were first rate. The attention to >> historical accuracy was amazing. More than any other Biblical >> film that I've ever seen, I thought it was the most faithful >> to scripture. I have many non-member friends (in the arts and >> out) who feel pretty much the same way. However, this bright, >> articulate, active LDS friend didn't like it. She said it >> just didn't seem very faithful to the scriptures. That's her >> opinion and it goes without saying that she is entitled to it >> and should stick to it. I told her that I thought it was the >> most faithful dramatic adaptation I've yet to see of any >> Biblical story; that the dramatic embellishments--needed when >> dramatizing a sparse text such as the Bible--were few and >> could be totally justified by the Biblical text itself. >> I was interested in understanding how, in this >> Sister's view, the film JOSEPH was unfaithful to the >> scriptures. She finally admitted that "I really couldn't >> think of any examples...I guess, it just didn't seem like >> they {Jacob, Joseph) behaved very much like prophets." >=20 > I haven't seen the movie, so I have no idea what my own opinion of it > might be. However, I think that you need to be very careful about > judging her unfit to recognize faithful art just because she disagrees > with you about that movie. I never said that she was "unfit to judge the movie." In fact, I said that she was welcome to her opinion and should stand by it. In our discussion, however, I wanted to know what she found objectionable. She was unable to site anything--just her overall emotional reaction. Since one of art's purposes is to provoke an emotional reaction in the audience, her reaction is just as valid as mine or anyone else's. And it goes without saying that one work of art (especially if it is well done and effectively conveys the artist's sense of life) will provoke many contrasting emotional reactions i= n individuals. For the purpose of a discussion, however, I think it behooves as individual to examine their emotional reaction rationally. When we don't do this, I think that we aren't taking full advantage of the opportunity fo= r self-reflection that art presents. > of the TNT special, but I'm not sure that says anything at all about how > church members would receive an accurate story about Joseph Smith. >=20 As both Joseph's are reverenced by Church members as prophets, I think the case can give us some indication of how particular people may react to a dramatic or artistic portrayal of "the sacred." >> There is a tendency--a BIG TENDENCY--I believe, among many Church >> members to think that a prophet acts like a reserved, >> dignified, suit-and-tie, elderly American gentleman of the >> late 20th century. Of course, the facts are that the majority >> of prophets have not fit this stereotype...including the >> majority of the Church's founding prophets and apostles. And >> so LDS history in art has been reduced to the "sanatized" >> "historical revisionism" of THE WORK AND THE GLORY series. >> LDS audiences (it seems to >> me) demand the same thing that members of other minority >> groups (gay, ethnic, etc.): that the art appease any doubts >> they have regarding their affiliation with the group. These >> are simply my opinions based on my own experiences and >> observations. ROB LAUER >=20 > Well, I agree that we tend to want too much seriousness in our prophets. > We *do* as a culture tend to equate "called to preach God's word" with > "serious demeanor". But I think that cause and effect are a bit > transposed here. I think that we've been trained by our past art and > hagiographic history to expect seriousness. I think it reflects a lack > of trust by the historians and artists as much as anything else. I totally agree with you. > now, I think we have experienced two poles with hagiography on the one > hand and expos=E9 on the other. I'd love to see something that is > accurate without having an axe to grind. I agree. I get very frustrated when things have to be labeled either "pro-Mormon/pro-Church" or "anti-Mormon/anti-Church." In fact, now that I think about it, this very frustration was probably what moved to first emai= l in the response that got this whole discussion going. > hagiography and expos=E9, I don't fault members for hanging out in the > hagiography camp. But that doesn't necessarily mean that hagiography is > all we'll accept, it's just all we've been given. I think that the > reception of God's Army is proof of my opinion. We'll see if that bears > up when Dutcher releases his movie about Joseph Smith. >=20 I really pray that Richard is true to his vision. I think that the Joseph Smith story is the "property" (for lack of a better word) of all AMERICANS. If he had not lived and had not done what he did, we would live in a very different country in many respects. Certainly the history of the settling o= f the West would be considerably different. (Note: I remember in 1978 reading--of all things-- a PEOPLE magazine article on the 100 most influential Americans. Joseph Smith was, I believe, in the top one third an= d was labeled the most influential religious leader that America ever produced.) As one who joined the Church, left the Church and then rejoined eleven year= s later, I never stopped feeling that Mormon history was a very important par= t of MY history (as an American) regardless of my religious affiliation. This is why I personally am completely committed to creating "Mormon Art." I regard such a thing as a subset of "American Art." [Rob Lauer] - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:01:24 -0700 From: "Jeff Savage" Subject: [AML] Fiction in LDS Pubs OK, so I just got my September Era and there were the various contest winners, including (drum roll please) FICTION! So does the new policy do away with the teen fiction contest in the future. - -Jeff - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:17:38 -0600 From: MGA Subject: Re: [AML] Rob Lauer This is an answer to Andrew Hall's inquiry regarding my career since publication of DIGGER and THE BEEHIVE STATE: (I hope it's not too boring.): I've been earning my living writing, directing and acting since leaving BYU in 1982. When BEEHIVE STATE was produced and published in 1988, I was in my fifth year as Artistic Director of The Olde Theatre Company--a municipally funded theatre in Portsmouth, Va. In 1990 my play TOM AND PENNY'S YARD PARTY (a satire on religious TV) won the Best Play Award at the Deep South Writers Conference. That same year, the conference awarded my one-act THE CHURCH STREET FANTASY their Paul T. Nolan Award. I moved to New York City in 1991, where I continued acting, writing and directing. Most of my work was in regional theatre from 1991-1994. I acting in several national theatre tours between 1996 and 1996. In 1996 I was hired as Artistic Director of NYC production company, Sail Productions, Inc. For this company I wrote and directed several children's musical theatre pieces for national tours. I wrote the book and lyrics, while collaborating with three very talented LDS composers: Matt Bean (a former BYU room-mate and one of the most talented men I know); Lisa DeSpain ( another brilliant young LDS composer living in NYC); Dan Hoeye (a member of the LDS/Deseret records recording group ELEMENOP [pronounced: L-M-N-O-P). Together we wrote musical versions of THE SNOW QUEEN, THE ELVES & THE SHOEMAKER, THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, THE UGLY DUCKLING and the only authorized stage version of Dodie Smith's THE 101 DALAMTIONS. Sail Production continues to tour these shows annually, so they've probably played in your region of the country. Currently I am ending a contract as production manager and writer for MGA FIlms, Inc., a documentary film company in Fort Collins, Co. I am currently being interviewed for two jobs: one with Florida Studio Theatre, and the other with New Dominion Pictures--which produces several series for the Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel. (Say a little prayer for me! Either job would be great!) Recently Ifinished the first draft of my first children's novel: THE NAKED EMPEROR OF NIL. I'm also working on what I call "my 'Mormon-Gone-With-the-Wind,'" novel. The working title is DESERET. The theme is that of the collective versus the individual. It is set in Utah Territory between 1886 and 1888. The plot revolves around the five people: a 32-year-old-Danish convert, his wife, a young woman he takes as a second wife, a mid-wife and a young Federal Marshal. All are caught in the middle of the Federal Government's crusade against polygamy and the Church. I'm also in the beginning stages of writing a youth oriented LDS novel about one of the "Stripling Warriors." In 1997 I was called as an Associate Director of the Church's Hill Cumorah Pageant. I still serve in that calling, so every year I get to have what I call "Christmas in July." That experience has been one of the most rewarding artistic experiences in my life. Thanks for your interest in what I've been up to all these years! ROB LAUER - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:00:09 -0600 From: "Eric D. Snider" Subject: Re: [AML] An Iconography of Our Own Don't forget the New Era shorthand of putting facial hair on young men to indicate that they're rebellious/from the wrong side of the tracks/non-members. Eric D. Snider - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:05:23 -0600 From: Thom Duncan Subject: Re: [AML] Joseph Smith Story "Eric R. Samuelsen" wrote: > Okay, it's been done. OSC's Saints and Sam Taylor's Nightfall at Nauvoo. Saints isn't about Joseph Smith, it's about a fictional female character who sort of tangentially resembles Eliza R. Snow. Nightfall at Nauvoo, I haven't read in awhile; anyone remember it? The novel's POV is rather god-like as I recall. Watching the events from a distance. I don't remember too much in-depth characterization. Joseph's death at Carthage read like a news story. Thom - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:36:53 -0600 From: "Todd Petersen" Subject: [AML] Back on the List This is Todd Robert Petersen signing back on. =20 I've been doing things like finishing a dissertation, getting a job (at = Southern Utah University), and oh, getting married. Consequently, not = much time left on the books to kibbutz with the Momonati. I hold office hours now (read, spends a lot of time twiddling his thumbs), = so I have some time and I'm interested to see what's developed and if = we've gotten into the R-rated movie argument again. It's also nice to be out of Oklahoma and in a Utah town where the temple = is a replica of the Globe theater. I had a marvelous conversation with = Margaret Young and her husband, Bruce, on the lawn here in Cedar during a = greenshow. I had forgotten how much I miss conversations like the ones on = this list. - -- Todd Robert Petersen - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:32:05 -0500 From: Major Productions Subject: Re: [AML] Letters and Mormon Literature > > What do you all think of the epistolary novel genre? I'm a list lurker, but have truly enjoyed eavesdropping! As for the epistolary novel form, my writing partner and I wrote a novel about 15 years ago (set during the Jacobite Rebellion of '45)--just as kind of a writing exercise--and it was so much fun, we wrote another one set in the American Colonies in 1767. Now we're working on a third, set during the war of 1812--all pre-Restoration, of course, but we may work our way up to the mid-1800's one of these years. (I figure about five years per project....) With regard to the Joseph Smith thread, I read a book last week called something like THE MESSAGE (I'm getting old! Can't remember the author!) and it was very thought-provoking. The guy talks about being in a coma for several days and spending time in Paradise. He never comes out and says he's LDS, but you get a hint or two when he talks about temples and priesthood blessings. This was an intriguing topic to me, since some of my best friends are in Paradise! My mom read the book and was really touched by it. She pretty much begged me to read it--and I found portions of it moving, too, but I kept thinking, "This guy sure needs a good copy editor!" The typos distracted me (but maybe that's because I'm easily distracted) and when I was through with the book, I thought, "Wow! Profound message! Sure wish someone had corrected those galleys!" The point is (Yes, Virginia, there *is* a point!) that the message doesn't always have to be presented by perfect people. (Good thing, or there wouldn't be any messages being presented!) In fact, imperfect messengers probably rely more on the Spirit to fill in the gaps. I am profoundly moved by the fact that God can take flawed people who make big booboos on a regular basis and use them as a force for good in the world. Just like (I have to get this all out, because I may never come out of lurking again!--since you all are so much smarter and well-read than I am....) He can take the mistakes we make and still help us to wring something good out of them. Because He's God. So Joseph Smith wasn't perfect. Good! That means there's hope for me.... Robbin Olsen Major. - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 22:40:43 -0600 From: "Morgan Adair" Subject: [AML] Great Salt Lake Book Festival >>> margaret_young@byu.edu 08/29/01 12:43PM >>> > >I just read a book called _The Ferry Woman_ written (by a guy)=20 Gerald Grimmett >I have not had time for reading other than research material, but=20 >needed to read _The Ferry Woman_ because I'll be on a panel with=20 >the author, and wanted to know what he'd done. Is this going to be at the Great Salt Lake Book Festival (Sept 22-23)? I = notice that Grimmett was on the schedule: http://www.utahhumanities.org/bookfestival/bookfestival.html=20 along with a bunch of other familiar names: Terry Tempest Williams, Tom = Lyon, Stephen Trimble, James Welch, Levi Peterson, John Bennion, Dennis = Clark, Linda Sillitoe, Alan Barnett, Martha Bradley, Carol Lynn Pearson, = Steve Siporin, David Lee, and on the list of writers "confirmed" to be in = attendance, Eugene England, whose attendance will guarantee that I'll be = there, too. MBA (Morgan B. Adair) - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:53:19 -0600 From: "Cathy Wilson" Subject: [AML] Polygamy (was: Joseph Smith Story) I firmly believe >that one's reaction to polygamy reveals far more about one's notions of the >sex act itself as either inherently good, inherently evil, amoral, etc Ah alas, my cranky subject. I think rather MY response to polygamy (and probably many women feel the same) has to do with one's sense of self as a woman and wife. I can't remember the name of the story by an actual plural wife, married, I think, to Smoot (_A Mormon Mother_?) who describes her husband taking a plural wife not long after her own marriage: "I wonder wherein I lacked that so quickly he sought another."). People who are married know that to grow in a marriage, people need absolute trust, confidence and giving up of one's sins and faults. Polygamy inherently creates distance and diminishing intimacy, by its very nature. As in _The Giant Joshua_, if the husband is not happy with one wife's responses and behavior, why, he can just go spend some time with another. I lived with a husband deeply committed to what I call "neo-polygamy," not to the point of marrying in this case but certainly to creating mutiple relationships. Imagine yourself as an approaching-middle-age mama with many many children, pregnant with yet another, bloated, slow, tired, overwhelmed, while your husband is enjoying the romantic rush of courting other women. I am fairly certain that early polygamous wives keenly felt this situation. Perhaps we might suggest that 19th century America didn't hold the model of marriage as an intimate, trusting committed relationship, but I think that won't hold much water. I think throughout the centuries, marriage and fidelity have been a fair constant. Sometimes you hear the argument that polygamy wasn't sexual or emotional but rather theological. I think if we are honest, we'll roll over laughing on that one. I spent a good deal of time, way back then in my neo-polygamy misery days, reading the Journal of Discourses for some comfort--didn't find much. I remember one quote (at this point I don't remember who said it but it's probably to the best): "Nothing puts a light in the eye or a spring in the step so much as taking a new, 16-year-old wife." Well, duh (as my kids would say). . . .I would guess today's neo-polygamists would concur on that one. Please note that I'm not addressing the theological issues of polygamy here. Hopefully bigger and stronger minds will deal with that one. Cathy (Gileadi) Wilson Editing Etc. 1400 West 2060 North Helper UT 84526 - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:32:38 -0600 From: Steve Subject: [AML] 3 Albums Releases Simultaneously Hi folks, http://www.ucjournal.com/PageSpeed53/News/story/396500 This is the URL for an article and photos about simultaneous album (CD) releases by my mother, Janice Kapp Perry, my sister, Lynne Perry Christofferson, and yours truly. Thanks, Steve - -- skperry@mac.com - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:41:28 -0600 From: Chris Grant Subject: Re: [AML] Joseph Smith Story I wrote: >>I will be satisfied if the Mormon intelligentsia uses the >>same degree of discretion, kindness, and understanding, in >>telling the Prophet Joseph's story as it does in telling >>Brother England's. D. Michael Martindale replied: >Holy moley, I wouldn't! Gene England just died. Eulogizing the >life of a recently deceased person is always done with >discretion, kindness, and understanding. It's the appropriate >thing to do at a time like that. Does that mean that what's being said about Brother England now is more a matter of ritual than of truthtelling? Is anyone planning on telling us the real warts-and-all story in the near future? How about the stories of other Mormon intellectuals? Will, for example, somebody be telling D. Michael Quinn's story the same way Quinn told Evan Stephens'? [...] >a novel exploring a historical character that used the >"eulogy" approach would be absolutely awful! In a recent thread, I mentioned the Thomas More of _A Man for All Seasons_ and the C.S. Lewis of _Shadowlands_ as examples of interesting "good" characters, and you said that they weren't technically "good". I didn't notice many warts in those characterizations, but I take it that you wouldn't put those stories in the absolutely awful eulogy category, is that right? Margaret Young said: >I'm wondering about the implication of the word "discretion" >in Chris Grant's post. Scriptures and Church leaders use the word to denote a virtue. That's how I intended to use it. [...] >if someone were to write a biography of Gene England, they >would surely have to include his moments of frustration with >the institutional Church. As I see it, telling us how Elder So-and-so was mean to Brother England may give us the warts-and-all story of Elder So-and-so but not of Brother England. The warts-and-all story of Brother England would need to show us *his* warts (if he had any). [...] >I get very nervous about the suggestion that we use >"discretion" in telling any of the Church leaders' stories. >Couldn't that lead to more iconizing and conscious censorship? As Elder Oaks has taught us, strengths can become weaknesses. That does not mean that those strengths aren't strengths when exercised in moderation. [...] >I know that Gene England would not want to be put on a >pedastol. I can't imagine anyone would. But clearly there are people who would like their stories to be told with discretion. That suggests that using discretion and putting people on pedestals are not necessarily the same thing. Chris Grant grant@math.byu.edu - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 10:55:22 -0600 From: Scott and Marny Parkin Subject: [AML] Have You Been Published This Year? Are you an LDS author? Have you been published this year? Would you like your work considered for an award? If so, please submit your work to the Association for Mormon Letters at the address below. I need two copies of each title. (You may send photocopies of published magazine pages if you don't want to send the entire magazine, but please include a copy of the contents page, masthead, or cover so I can have a record of where it was published.) We award in a number of broad categories, so I need to know which category you feel the titles correspond to. These are the categories as currently defined: * Novel (intended for adult audiences) * Children's (published in 1999, 2000, or 2001) * Young Adult (published in 1999, 2000, or 2001) * Short story * Essay (personal or academic) * Criticism * Film * Drama * Poetry (published in 2000 or 2001) * Devotional A note on this last category--Devotional literature is hard to define, but one thing we're not looking for is doctrinal works; more like book-length essays on personal devotional outlook. Past winners have included Chieko Okazaki, Neal A. Maxwell's _One More Strain of Praise_, and Patricia Holland's _A Quiet Heart_. You may have noticed that I included additional years for some of the categories. Normally, I only solicit titles for a single year, but in the case of Children's, YA, and Poetry, we haven't given awards recently and I'm interested in your best titles in those categories for the years listed. Please forward this notice as appropriate. Thank you for your help and interest. I look forward to working with you to recognize excellence in Mormon letters. Scott Parkin 475 East 560 South AML Awards Coordinator Santaquin, Utah 84655 scottparkin@earthlink.net (801) 754-3591 - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V1 #440 ******************************