Proceedings of the March 2001 symposium of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History at Brigham Young University. This symposium was geared to a broad audience of scholars, family historians, and students interested in how one writes about a life and more specifically the life of a Latter-day Saint.

These proceedings comprise a rich collection of papers that will be of interest to a diversity of readers—from veteran writers and scholars to those who are just beginning to write life stories.