Maurine Whipple

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Maurine Whipple (20 January 1903 - 12 April 1992) was a twentieth-century American novelist and short story writer best known for her novel The Giant Joshua (1941)^[1] about southern Utah and polygamy. The novel sold well but caused controversy among the Mormon community.^[2] She won the 1938 Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship.

Whipple spent most of her life, including her early and later years, in southern Utah.

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↑ Maureen Whipple, Mormon Literature Database (accessed March 17, 2012)
↑ "Too sacred for public consumption -or- Disgusting the prophet’s wife" by Theric Jepson, A Motley Vision, July 9, 2009 (accessed March 17, 2011)

Hale, Veda Tebbs (August 1992), "In Memoriam Maureen Whipple", Sunstone: 13–15

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Name	Whipple, Maurine
Alternative names
Short description	Writer
Date of birth	1903-01-20
Place of birth	St George, Utah
Date of death	1992-04-12
Place of death	St. George, Utah

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Maurine Whipple

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