Richard Lyman Bushman -Author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

Richard Bushman is Gouverneur Morris Professor of History, Emeritus, at Columbia University. His first book, From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order, 1690-1765 received the Bancroft Prize for 1967. He has taught at Brigham Young University, Boston University, the University of Delaware, as well as Columbia. As a social and cultural historian of early America, he published The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, and Cities in 1992, which was a History Book Club and Book of the Month selection.

A prolific author–Richard Bushman, has written articles on subjects ranging from the American Revolution to modern-day religion. He is noted from his many scholarly articles on Joseph Smith. A practicing Mormon, he lives with his wife Claudia Bushman in New York City. For more information, please visit www.randomhouse.com.

Richard Bushman will be the opening-night keynote speaker on Thursday, Oct. 26 at 8:00 p.m. in the Salt Lake City Main Library, Auditorium. He will be available for book signings after his presentation.