About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 74. Chapters: Sheldon Rampton, William Shunn, Randy Bachman, Ina Coolbrith, Ex-Mormon, Bo Gritz, Kerry Wendell Thornley, Dale Morgan, Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Warren Parrish, Carolyn Jessop, Dustin Lance Black, Roger E. Billings, Sylvester Smith, Neil LaBute, Martha Beck, Pat Fraley, Mary Ellen Tracy, Eddy Shell, William Norman Grigg, Richard McCoy, Jr., John Corrill, List of former Latter Day Saints, Jan Groenveld, John C. Bennett, Roger Delano Hinkins, Paul D. Boyer, Richard Dutcher, John F. Boynton, Tal Bachman, Courtney Simpson, Heber Jentzsch, William Law, Jesse Gause, Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish, William Weeks, Rafe Judkins, Warren A. Cowdery, Steve Benson, Carolyn Tanner Irish, Michelle Shocked, Will Swenson, Lyman E. Johnson, Lindsay Pulsipher, Patrick Michael Larsson, Daya Mata, Alfred Milnes, Dan Vogel, Doctor Philastus Hurlbut, Walter Kirn, Scott Bidstrup, Bruce Bastian, Brian Evenson, Wayne Hussey, Kate Kendell, Ziba Peterson, C. Jay Cox, Michael Glatze, Ezra Booth, William Jasper Kerr, James Valentine, Annette Haven, William Barratt, Kevin Gregson, Lee Mantle, Leonard Rich, Phil Cunningham, Irene Spencer, Jessica Holmes, Justin Utley, Colleen Townsend, Brandy Alexandre, Sue-Ann Post, Matthew Sheffield. Excerpt: Ina Donna Coolbrith (March 10, 1841 - February 29, 1928) was an American poet, writer, librarian, and a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community. Called the "Sweet Singer of California," she was the first California Poet Laureate and the first poet laureate of any American state. Coolbrith, born the niece of Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr., left the Mormon community as a child to enter her teens in Los Angeles, California, where she began to publish poetry. She terminated a youthful failed marriage to make her home in San Francisco, and met writers Bret Harte and Cha...
