Matthew J. Grow is director of publications for the Church Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and a general editor of the Joseph Smith Papers. His first two books, "Liberty to the Downtrodden": Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer and Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism (with Terryl L. Givens), have both received a Best Book of the Year award from the Mormon History Association.
Ronald W. Walker has lived the past thirty-five years in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is Professor Emeritus of History at Brigham Young University and is the award-winning author or co-author of more than five dozen scholarly articles and seven books.