Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Friday that a new biography is being written about church founder Joseph Smith.

(RNS) — Loving, devoted Mormon prophet or rage-prone abuser? Yes to both, says a new biography of Joseph F. Smith.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has commissioned a new biography of church founder Joseph Smith — an official look at the 19th-century charismatic leader who launched a global ...

“Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration” (2005) Mitchell is the screen Smith most current Latter-day Saints know, since he played the founder in a much-screened church-produced biography.

Françoise Mouly and Genevieve Bormes interview the cartoonist Noah Van Sciver, whose new book, “Joseph Smith and the Mormons,” is a graphic-novel biography of the American prophet. An excerpt ...

A new book about Joseph Smith was announced by President Dallin H. Oaks on Friday. Who will write the new Joseph Smith biography? When will it be published?

Joseph Smith, the Founder and Prophet of Mormonism, Was Born Into an Impoverished and Itinerant Family in Vermont Throughout his childhood, the young Smith, born on this day in 1805, fought ...

A photo of Mormonism founder Joseph Smith Jr. was found after around 180 years and recently confirmed by one of his family descendants, but the church itself is less sure.