As a teenager, she taught Sunday School in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Historian Juanita Brooks, who taught at Maurine's school when she was a senior, described her as precocious and recalled that she was the editor of the school newspaper and yearbook. When she was old enough, Whipple worked in the theater as a janitor and popcorn girl until it closed in the Great Depression. In 1906, alongside his lumber yard and ice house businesses, Charlie and some business associates ran a movie theater in town. Maurine stayed home from school to help raise George, who suffered from eczema and other ailments and needed constant care. When she was twelve years old in 1915, Maurine's mother gave birth to her brother George and had a nervous breakdown. Whipple's maternal grandmother, Cornelia Lenzi McAllister, and her fellow sister wives told Whipple stories about their lives when she was young. Charlie left the church during Whipple's childhood. Her parents were both children of parents in polygamous relationships. George, Utah, the oldest of six children. Maurine Whipple was born to Charles and Annie Lenzi (McAllister) Whipple on January 20, 1903, in St. Although she never published any additional longer works, she published essays, short stories, and articles in various journals and periodicals. Afterwards, she made plans to make The Giant Joshua into a trilogy, but the two additional volumes, along with two other novels, remained unfinished at the time of her death.
After attending the 1937 Rocky Mountain Writer's conference, she made connections that led to her publish The Giant Joshua with Houghton Mifflin. She taught high school for several years in both Utah and Idaho. She attended Dixie College, then graduated from the University of Utah with honors.
The book is lauded as one of the most important Mormon novels, vividly depicting pioneer and polygamous life in the 19th century. Maurine Whipple (Janu– April 12, 1992) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her novel The Giant Joshua (1941).
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