Barbara Jones Brown & Quinn children (Chosen Path), 1/31/24

EVENING WITH AN EDITOR

A reminder that Barbara Jones Brown, editor and lead annotator, will be here to speak about Chosen Path: A Memoir (published by Signature Books) THIS THURSDAY, Feb 1. She will be joined by Michael Quinn's children: Moshe Quinn, Mary Quinn and Lisa Quinn Harrison. They will be here from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., will speak at 6:00, and answer questions before and after that time. They can sign copies of the book if you would like. We hope you will be able to make it that night but, if not, we can mail a copy or hold one here at the store for pick-up. To RSVP on Facebook, click here.

After D. Michael Quinn’s death in April 2021, his children found his remarkable, unpublished memoir in his home and entrusted Signature Books with its publication. Relying on his journals, primary research, and reminiscences, Quinn shares his life story as few have heard it–from his father’s hiding of his true name and Mexican identity, to his upbringing by his abusive grandmother, to his choice to closet his homosexuality, to his undying commitment to his faith and its history.

From the age of nine, Quinn felt convicted he would one day serve as an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He chose the path he believed would take him there, eventually living as a straight LDS family man in a mixed-orientation marriage. In the 1980s he became a BYU professor and one of Mormonism’s most promising, prolific, and respected historians. But his uncompromising commitment to total honesty about his religion’s history, along with his homosexuality, set him on a collision course with church leaders and the end of his seemingly idyllic Mormon life. Throughout his telling, Quinn unflinchingly opens up about his feelings and experiences that shaped his enigmatic life.

Chosen Path: A Memoir. Signature Books. Hardback. 571pp. $39.99. To purchase online, click here.

Barbara Jones Brown is the director of Signature Books. Previously she was the executive director of the Mormon History Association, historical director of Better Days 2020, and content editor of the award-winning Massacre at Mountain Meadows (2008). She is co-author of the book’s sequel, Vengeance Is Mine, The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath (2023). Brown earned a Master’s degree in American history from the University of Utah and a Bachelor’s degree in journalism and English from Brigham Young University.

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Quinn, D. Michael. The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power. Signature Books, 1994. Hardback. $39.95

Quinn, D. Michael. The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power. Signature Books, 1997. Hardback. Reg. $44.95, SALE $39.99

Quinn, D. Michael. The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth & Corporate Power. Signature Books, 2017. Hardback. Reg. $49.99, SALE $39.99

Quinn, D. Michael. Early Mormonism and the Magic World View. Signature Books, 1998. Paperback. $35.95

Quinn, D. Michael, ed. The New Mormon History: Revisionist Essays on the Past. Signature Books, 1992. Paperback. Reg. $18.95, SALE $7.99

Benjamin E. Park, ed. DNA Mormon: Perspectives on the Legacy of Historian D. Michael Quinn. Signature Books, 2022. Paperback. $18.95

Topping, Gary. D. Michael Quinn: Mormon Historian (Brief Mormon Lives). Signature Books, 2022. Paperback. $9.95

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