Template:Did you know nominations/Maurine Whipple


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:09, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Maurine Whipple

 * ... that Maurine Whipple, author of the Mormon epic The Giant Joshua, had two polygamous grandfathers? Source: "Maurine's father, Charlie, was a complicated man, not at all convinced it was all right that a society had allowed him to be left in poverty with a second-wife mother while his father took a younger wife to Mexico. [...] Maurine's mother, Anna, daughter of a left-behind third wife, was delicate, sickly and gentle, confused by desiring to follow the acceptable Church line." (Maurine Whipple and Her Joshua, Juanita Brooks Lecture Series)
 * ALT1:... that in 1989, Maurine Whipple ' s Mormon epic The Giant Joshua was the most-borrowed book in the Salt Lake City Public Library? Source: "As a consequence, Mormons showed little interest in purchasing reading copies—though Salt Lake City Public Library records indicate that guilty curiosity was sufficient to make it the most-borrowed book in the system." People of Paradox I followed the footnote, which got the statistic from a 1989 newsletter.
 * ALT2:... that Mormon scholars unanimously chose Maurine Whipple ' s Mormon epic The Giant Joshua as the best Mormon novel before 1980? Source: "Morgan wrote that Maurine Whipple's The Giant Joshua (#37) "has claims to be considered the best Mormon novel so far published... " He calls it "a law unto itself" and says the book "overflows with life" and is "richly rewarding." Later critics tend to agree with Morgan. In fact, this seems to be the unanimous choice of all I asked to name the best Mormon novel. Sunstone"
 * Reviewed: Schlafes Bruder
 * Comment: I wish I had worked on this as a draft in my sandbox... I'm not done with the page, but the expansion deadline is today, so I'm nominating it now. Some of the material on the Maurine Whipple page should probably go on The Giant Joshua page. I'm taking a wikibreak soon and will be back on the 23rd. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 20:54, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

5x expanded by Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk). Self-nominated at 20:48, 10 May 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg The lead states she won the 1938 Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for writing The Giant Joshua in 1941. Surely there's something wrong here? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:02, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry that wasn't clear, . I added some clarification to the page. The award was for an author in advance of their first novel. So she wrote the first few chapters and applied for the award. Since the novel was so long, it took her three years to write it. The award was really a way to pay new writers a small advance for a novel and publishing contract, which in this case, worked in the publisher's favor. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 16:20, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg Thank you. This five-fold expansion is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline and any of the hooks could be used, although I prefer ALT1. The article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:36, 23 May 2018 (UTC)