Matthew J Grow Editor & Author

Matthew J. Grow received his PhD in U. S. history from the University of Notre Dame (2006) and previously taught history at the University of Southern Indiana, where he directed the Center for Communal Studies. He is currently director of publications for the Church Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and a general editor of the Joseph Smith Papers. His first two books book, "Liberty to the Downtrodden": Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer and Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism have both received the Best Book of the Year from the Mormon History Association. Ronald W. Walker has lived the past thirty-five years in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the author or co-author of more than five dozen scholarly articles and nine books.