Papa Married a Mormon by John D. Fitzgerald – read online • 9780914740216

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Papa Married a Mormon
by John D. Fitzgerald

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• ISBN: 9780914740216 (0914740210)
• Genres: fiction, religion, classics, humor, historical, lds, childrens
• Format: hardcover, 298 pages
• Language: english
• Places: United States of America
• Publisher: Western Epics Publishing Company
• Release date: December 1, 1976
• Author: John D. Fitzgerald

About The Book

Papa Married a Mormon made its initial appearance in McCall’s magazine in 1955 and later became a bestseller for Prentice-Hall and a selection of two book clubs. Mamma’s Boarding House and Uncle Will and the Fitzgerald Curse followed soon after, but good luck finding either of them.

Born in Price, Utah, in 1907 to a Scandinavian Mormon mother and an Irish Catholic father, he grew up influenced by both cultures. He left Utah behind at age eighteen, working at such varied jobs as playing in a jazz band, working in a bank, and serving as an overseas newspaper correspondent. At the time of his first break into the national literary scene, he was a purchaser for a steel company in California. Fitzgerald began writing Papa Married a Mormon, a family history about his boyhood, to fulfill a promise made to his mother on her death-bed. She implored him to tell the story of those who settled the west. Not so much a story of the Mormons, but of the people themselves — specifically Fitzgerald’s family and members of the Mormon/Gentile community in which they lived.

Set in the fictional southern Utah community of Adenville, Fitzgerald creates a nostalgic picture of small town life in early 1900s. The story tells of the conflicts between the Mormons and gentiles within the community, and how leaders on both sides managed to unify the town, despite their differences and animosities. Because many parts of the book are similar in prose to Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn novels, Papa Married a Mormon fits the mold of a Victorian look at an era long gone.

Reference: The Promise Is Fulfilled: Literary Aspects of John D. Fitzgerald’s Novels, by Audrey M. Godfrey. Retrieved February 11, 2008 from: http://mldb.byu.edu/94/godfrey.htm

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