John G. Turner’s new book is a nimble account that showcases the frenzied core of Smith’s soul.

Joseph Smith's "moves to seduce other men's wives were so brazen and notorious that they led one distraught husband, Orson Pratt, to attempt suicide in Nauvoo, Illinois, on July 14, 1842." ...

(RNS) — ‘I think the evidence for Joseph’s polygamous sealings is pretty overwhelming,’ says historian John Turner, who has penned a new biography of Joseph Smith.

Recently we’ve seen a rise in what some scholars are calling “polygamy denial,” with some Latter-day Saints now claiming Joseph Smith never practiced polygamy, or at least not sexual polygamy.

Author of new Joseph Smith biography shares his thoughts about the church founder. Jana Riess: Yes, LDS founder Joseph Smith practiced polygamy ... There’s the revelation on marriage itself.

Joseph Smith 1805-1844 Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr. grew up on a series of tenant farms in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York.

Joseph Fielding Smith and others disputed such a demarcation, but various First Presidencies have affirmed it, likely under the influence of Latter-day Saint scientists such as apostles James E ...

Joseph Fielding Smith served as an apostle for 60 years, church historian for 49 and as the faith’s 10th president for two. But he will forever be remembered more for his prose and his polemics ...

Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...