Linda sillitoe biography
- Linda Buhler Sillitoe was an American journalist, poet and historian.
- A University of Utah graduate, Linda Sillitoe has worked as a journalist for the Deseret News, Utah Holiday magazine, and the New York Times.
- Linda Buhler Sillitoe, born July 31, 1948, was an American journalist, poet, novelist and historian.
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A University of Utah graduate, Linda Sillitoe has worked as a journalist for the Deseret News, Utah Holiday magazine, and the New York Times. She has won awards from the Utah chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Associated Press as well as three nominations for a Pulitzer Prize for her stories about life in Salt Lake County. She has written three important books on aspects of Utah history: Banking on the Hemingways: Three Generations of Banking in Utah and Idaho (1992); Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders (1988, co-authored with Allan Roberts); and Friendly Fire: The ACLU in Utah (1996). She wrote the official centennial history of Salt Lake County, which was published in a popular format as Welcoming the World: A History of Salt Lake County (1996). She also has published a collection of poems (Crazy for Living, 1993), a short story collection (Windows on the Sea, 1989), and two novels (Sideways to the Sun, 1998, and Secrets Keep, 1995). Her creative works have won multipl
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Linda Buhler Sillitoe, born July 31, 1948, was an American journalist, poet, novelist and historian. Her journalistic coverage about Mark Hofmann and the "Mormon forgery murders" gained her national recognition, leading to her book, Salamander, coauthored with Allen Roberts. Salamander examined Hofmann's creation of an industry for forged LDS Church documents, as well as the 1985 bombing murders of a document collector and his employee, and the following police investigation, arrest and conviction of Hofmann. Hofmann's documents, initially seen by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as undermining its early history, were revealed as forgeries by the murder investigation. Sillitoe’s later published works included fiction and poetry.
Sillitoe was born and raised in Salt Lake City, one of eight children born to Robert E and Phyllis Liddle Buhler. A graduate from the University of Utah, she married John Sillito (spelling difference intentional) in 1968 and had three children.
A staff writer for the Deseret News and news feature ed
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Archives West Finding Aid
Includes a letter of proposal from Sillitoe to author the history, a document entitled "Consultant's Qualifications," and correspondence regarding an amendment to Sillitoe's contract with the state.
Descriptive Outline
Correspondence with the state concerning the county history project.
Memos and Correspondence
Consultant Memos
Includes correspondence with the county, as well as a draft of the sidebar copy to be used in the history.
Includes news clippings, statistical reports, and journal articles, as well as some drafts of the sidebar text.
Includes photocopied title pages, bibliographies for further research, and rough bibliographies of Sillitoe's own books.
Includes photocopies of photographs, most dated and sourced. There are some nota
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