''The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt'' is the 1874 posthumous autobiography of

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Parley P. Pratt Parley Parker Pratt Sr. (April 12, 1807 – May 13, 1857) was an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement whose writings became a significant early nineteenth-century exposition of the Latter Day Saint faith. Named in 1835 as one of the first ...

. It was compiled from Pratt's writings by Pratt's son, Parley P. Pratt Jr., with assistance from his wife and apostle John Taylor. The ''Autobiography'' is the most frequently read of Pratt's several works, and it has been suggested that "excluding Lucy Mack Smith's ''Biographical Sketches'' ..., it is possibly the most important atter Day Sainthistorical work written in the nineteenth century".Benjamin E. Park, "Roundtable Discussion: Perspectives on Parley Pratt's ''Autobiography'': Introduction", ''

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'', vol. 37, no. 1 (Winter 2011):151–53. The same author states that due to its accessible prose, it "remains one of the most frequently read texts for Latter-day Saints even in the twenty-first century".

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References

* Cheryl L. Bruno, "The Conjugal Relationships of Parley P. Pratt as Portrayed in His 'Autobiography'", ''

'', vol. 37, no. 1 (Winter 2011):187–94. * Matthew J. Grow, "A 'Truly Eventful Life': Writing the 'Autobiography' of Parley P. Pratt", ''

'', vol. 37, no. 1 (Winter 2011):153–58. * David W. Grua, "Persecution, Memory, and Mormon Identity in Parley Pratt's 'Autobiography'", ''

'', vol. 37, no. 1 (Winter 2011):168–73. * Benjamin E. Park, "Parley Pratt's 'Autobiography' as Personal Restoration and Redemption", ''

'', vol. 37, no. 1 (Winter 2011):158–64. * Joseph M. Spencer, " On the Poetics of Self-Knowledge: Poetry in Parley Pratt's 'Autobiography'", ''

'', vol. 37, no. 1 (Winter 2011):173–78.

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