LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH was born in Sugar City, Idaho. She holds degrees from the University of New Hampshire, University of Utah, and Simmons College. She is 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University and past president of the American Historical Association. As a MacArthur Fellow, Ulrich worked on the PBS documentary based on her Pulitzer Prize-winning bookA Midwife's Tale.Her work is also featured on an award-winning website called dohistory.org. She is immediate past president of the Mormon History Association. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"Eloquent, imaginative. . . . The creativity and vigor that made
A Midwife's Tale an instant classic are also present
[here]."--Newsday
"With The Age of Homespun, [Ulrich] has truly outdone
herself."--The New York Times Book Review
"Remarkable . . . [Ulrich] performs like a virtuoso,
conjuring up the small details she then weaves into her larger
stories. . . . She dazzles." -Chicago Tribune
"Lively and captivating. . . . [Ulrich] quilts a new narrative, one
that both probes and explodes the myths surrounding the idealized
era of 'homespun.'" -Los Angeles Times
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