Don Bradley is a writer, editor, and researcher specializing in early Mormon history. Don recently performed an internship with the Joseph Smith Papers Project and is completing his thesis, on the earliest Mormon conceptions of the New Jerusalem, toward an M.A. in History at Utah State University. He has published on the translation of the Book of Mormon, plural marriage before Nauvoo, and Joseph Smith’s “grand fundamental principles of Mormonism” and plans to publish an extensive analysis, co-authored with Mark Ashurst-McGee, on the Kinderhook plates. Don’s first book, The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Missing Contents of the Book of Mormon, is slated to be published by Greg Kofford Books in September.
FairMormon Conference Presentations
‘President Joseph Has Translated a Portion’: Solving the Mystery of the Kinderhook Plates (PDF) (2011)
Piercing the Veil: Temple Worship in the Lost 116 Pages (2012)
The Original Context of the First Vision Narrative: 1820s or 1830s (2013)
Panel Discussion: The Loss and Rekindling of Faith (2013)