Scot and Maurine Proctor are the founders of the Latter-day Saint oriented website Meridian Magazine. They have also issued a revised edition of Lucy Mack Smith's history of Joseph Smith; it has been criticized by scholars such as Janiece Johnson who criticized the book for merging various historic texts of the work and adding materials without any justification. It is the version cited by such scholars as Susan Easton Black and Craig J. Ostler[1] at least in some of their works however.[2] The Proctor's work is also among those cited in the bibliography to Scott R. Petersen's 2005 book Where Have All The Prophets Gone.[3]
Their work has been criticized as "unreliable" by Fred W. Nelson in an article in the FARMS Review.[4] Scholars such as Andrew H. Hedges though have been willing to quote from the Proctors work.[5] The Proctor's work The Gathering was sighted in the footnotes to Gregory A. Prince and William Robert Wright's book David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism.[6]
The Proctors wrote The Gathering, Mormon Pioneers on the Trail to Zion. They have published a new edition of the Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt. The Proctors have also compiled a book Light from the Dust which presents photos of areas they believe are similar scenes to where the events of the Book of Mormon took place. For this book the Proctors did on site studies in Oman.[7]
The Proctors are the parents of eleven children in their combined families from prior marriages. They reside in Fairfax, Virginia.
The Proctors have produced a DVD entitled Gordon B. Hinckley - Temple Builder.[8]
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Maurine Jensen Proctor received her bachelors degree from the University of Utah and her masters degree from Harvard University. She worked for the Chicago Sun-Times before she and her husband started their own magazine. She has also written a book entitled From Adams Rib to Women's Lib.[9]
Scot Facer Proctor is a professional photographer[10] who wrote Witness of Light which was a photographic book about Joseph Smith.[11] The LDS Church has included his photos in their publications at times.[12][13]