Joseph Smith: The Journey of a Prophet by Susan Evans McCloud

by. Susan E. McCloud

Susan Evans McCloud is a prolific and versatile writer, with over fifty published books that range from historical fiction to mystery, nonfiction, and children’s literature. She writes her own column for Deseret News and has created many programs and songs for the Church’s Young Women, seminary, genealogy, and other programs. She is poetic yet precise in her writing and research and offers outstanding examples of literature at its best. She is also the author of two of our most beloved hymns, “Lord, I Would Follow Thee” and “As Zion’s Youth.”

This is a biographical book on The Prophet Joseph Smith, with intentional insight into his family and background, his struggles and theirs, and the way in which is experienced and developed a relationship with God and the Savior. It also stresses and illuminates his Christ-like nature, his love, gentleness, compassion and forgiveness of all men, and the way in which all men, women, and children were drawn to him--because of his purity and goodness.