News & Updates

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Books and Authors in the News:

• The Utah Division of State History granted Virginia Kerns the Juanita Brooks Best Book in Utah History for her book Sally in Three Worlds.
  
  
• Virginia Kerns won the scholarly nonfiction category for the WILLA awards from Women Writing the West for her book Sally in Three Worlds.
  
  
• Virginia Kerns won the Best Biography Award from Mormon History Association for her book Sally in Three Worlds.
  
  
• Val Holley won the Juanita Brooks Best Book in Utah history for Frank J. Cannon: Saint Senator, Scoundrel.
  
  
• This is the Plate: Utah Food Traditions edited Carol Edison, Eric A. Eliason, and Lynne S. McNeill was a finalist for Best Book in Utah History.
  
  
• Editors Michael Hubbard MacKay, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Brian M. Hauglid won the John Whitmer Historical Association Best Anthology Book Award for their volume, Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity .
  
  
• Ann Chamberlin won Best Personal Memoir from the Mormon History Association for her book Clogs and Shawls: Mormons, Moorlands, and the Search for Zion .
  
  
• This is the Plate: Utah Food Traditions edited by Carol Edison, Eric A. Eliason, and Lynne S. McNeil were presented a Special Award in Nonfiction by the Association of Mormon Letters
  
  
• Do you want to peruse our Mormon History titles? Take a look at our Mormon Studies catalog here.

Press Prizes:

Carolyn Oliver won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry for her manuscript, Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble.

Thomas Bowen won the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize for his manuscript, On Desert Shores: Archaeology and History of the Western Midriff Islands in the Gulf of Mexico .