Jane Barnes

Falling in Love with Joseph Smith

Tarcher/Penguin Group

When award-winning documentary film writer Jane Barnes was working on the PBS special series “The Mormons,” she was surprised to find herself passionately drawn to Joseph Smith. Barnes’s unlikely path helps her gain a newfound respect for the innovative American spirit that lies at the heart of Mormonism—and for a religion that is, in many ways, still coming into its own. Kirkus calls it “a searching, intelligent spiritual memoir” and the author has been interviewed on Leonard Lopate.