Kofford Authors Win Best Book, Best International Book Awards at MHA June 05 2015



Greg Kofford Books is proud to announce that two of our titles have won the Best Book and Best International Book Awards at the 2015 Mormon History Association conference!
Russell Stevenson's For the Cause of Righteousness: A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, 1830-2013 won the Best Book Award, for the best book published on Mormon history. Marjorie Newton's Mormon and Maori won the Best International Book Award, for the best book published on international Mormon history (the second time she has won this award). 
This is Kofford's second Best Book Award, after Mark Staker's 2011 win for Hearken O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations, and our third consecutive Best International Book Award, after Marjorie Newton's Tiki and Temple: The Mormon Mission in New Zealand, 1854-1958 in 2013, and Craig Livingston's From Above and Below: The Mormon Embrace of Revolution, 1840-1940 in 2014. (Kofford has also won Best Biography for Boyd Petersen's Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life in 2003, and Veda Tebbs Hale's Swell Suffering: A Biography of Maureen Whipple in 2012).

This is Kofford's second Best Book Award, after Mark Staker's 2011 win for Hearken O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations, and our third consecutive Best International Book Award, after Marjorie Newton's Tiki and Temple: The Mormon Mission in New Zealand, 1854-1958 in 2013, and Craig Livingston's From Above and Below: The Mormon Embrace of Revolution, 1840-1940 in 2014. (Kofford has also won Best Biography for Boyd Petersen's Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life in 2003, and Veda Tebbs Hale's Swell Suffering: A Biography of Maureen Whipple in 2012).