Signature Books

11/26/2025

Black Friday kindle sale - https://mailchi.mp/signaturebooks/black-friday-kindle-sale-2025

11/24/2025

New Release—Educating Zion: The Diaries of BYU President Ernest L. Wilkinson, 1952–1971 - https://mailchi.mp/signaturebooks/new-release-educating-zion

11/18/2025

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In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of BYU’s founding this fall, Signature is publishing two groundbreaking books that illuminate the school’s history. Historian Gary Bergera has done it again with another fascinating documentary history, Educating Zion: The Diaries of BYU President Ernest...

11/12/2025

Anyone interested in American novelist and writer Wallace Stegner, Utah history, and Mormonism will love this interview between author Alex Beam, John Dehlin, and Barbara Jones Brown as they dive into Beam’s biography “Wallace Stegner: Dean of Western Writers.”

“Beam explores the life, legacy, and complex relationship Stegner had with Mormonism, the American West, and figures like Joseph Smith and Gordon B. Hinckley.”

In this fascinating interview, author and journalist Alex Beam joins Mormon Stories to discuss his new biography titled Wallace Stegner: Dean of Western Writ...

11/07/2025

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Author Brian Q. Cannon sits down with editorial manager John Hatch to discuss his new book, Building a Global Zion: The Life and Vision of David O. McKay. The interview offers an up-close look at how McKay’s compassion and love for others shaped his leadership and his global vision for building un...

10/15/2025

Please join author Alex Beam at the University of Utah on Monday, October 20 at 3 PM. Alex has written two novels and seven works of non-fiction, two of them New York Times Notable Books of the Year. In 2014, he published “American Crucifixion,” a narrative history of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith.
He is also a longtime columnist for the Boston Globe.

EVENT: Join author Alex Beam as he discusses his new biography, Wallace Stegner: Dean of Western Writers.

Monday, October 20, 2025, at 3pm in Marriott Library, Learning Space 2753

Beam’s biography follows Wallace Stegner from his upbringing on the Canadian-American frontier and in SLC, to his prominent roles as novelist, essayist, teacher, and environmental advocate. The book examines Stegner’s time on the faculty of Stanford University, where he founded the Stegner Writing Fellowship, and his work with the Sierra Club and the U.S. Department of the Interior, including the authorship of the influential “Wilderness Letter” on the importance of open spaces. It also addresses the controversies and debates surrounding his career, including a plagiarism dispute over his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Angle of Repose. Stegner was a student at the University of Utah, graduating in 1930.

Beam has written extensively on literature, history, and culture. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Newsweek and BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, Slate, and Forbes.

See our website for all events:
https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/

University of Utah College of Humanities

09/29/2025

New Release: Building a Global Zion: The Life and Vision of David O. McKay - https://mailchi.mp/signaturebooks/new-release-building-a-global-zion

09/29/2025

We are looking forward to publishing Matthew Harris’s upcoming biography of Hugh B. Brown. This commentary in today’s Salt Lake Tribune offers a glimpse into his fight for social justice and equality within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Historian Matthew L. Harris examines the life of a "rebel" — Latter-day Saint apostle Hugh B. Brown, who battled fellow high-ranking church leaders over politics, social justice, civil rights, orthodoxy and more.

09/19/2025

September Newsletter: Brian Cannon on his new McKay Biography -

Join us on October 29 at Benchmark Books for an engaging evening with Brian Q. Cannon, who will speak about his new biography, Building a Global Zion: The Life of David O. McKay, releasing later this month.

08/29/2025

Carol Lynn Pearson Speaks On Her Just-published Diaries -

Beloved and acclaimed author, poet, and playwright Carol Lynn Pearson talks about the diaries she has kept for some seventy years—and why she decided to publish them. Speaking with Signature Books director Barbara Jones Brown, Pearson shares her personal experiences from the 1950s to the 1980s tha...