A research specialist at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Craig L. Foster is the author/coauthor of three books and is the coeditor of the three-volume Persistence of Polygamy series. A graduate of the University of Utah history department and raised as a member of the Apostolic United Brethren, Marianne T. Watson has been widely published and presented at conferences, including the Mormon History Association, the Western History Association and the first Mormon history conference in Brazil in 2010.