The Man Behind the Discourse: A Biography of King Follett

jfmortensen@gmail.com}, a third great-granddaughter of King and Louisa Follett, is an Arizona native. She graduated from the University of Arizona with a B.S. in secondary education, a major in business, and a minor in history. Her professional life has focused on working with school districts and school boards where she specialized in providing consulting services for personalized administrative searches, board and leadership training, and team-building activities. As a volunteer, she has participated on numerous councils and boards serving education and the arts in her community and in Arizona.      Not all Folletts followed Brigham Young, but her branch of the family did and was colonizing Arizona’s Gila Valley by the 1880s. Joann, an avid family historian, began serious research for this book in the 1970s. She gave a paper at the 2003 Mormon History Association conference in Kirtland, Ohio: “King Follett: the Kirtland Years—One Who Bore the Burden,” and followed up in 2005 with an article in theJournal of Mormon History: “King Follett: The Man behind the Discourse.”      She and her husband Irval, an attorney, have three children, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. They served an eighteen-month mission (2010–11) at the LDS Church History Library in Salt Lake City. Assigned to the Collections and Development Department, they are continuing that work as Church Service Missionaries from their home in Safford, Arizona.      Joann welcomes any input into the history of King Follett and his family. More Information: 601 pages ISBN: 9781589580367 (Paperback) Published December 2011