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The Diaries of Carol Lynn Pearson 2

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The Diaries of Carol Lynn Pearson—Mormon Author,
Feminist, and Activist, Volume 2: 1990–2002

Carol Lynn Pearson

Of these years of her life, poet, writer, and feminist Carol Lynn Pearson says, “The plot thickens, as all good plots do. My life and your life—if we are brave enough—move into areas that we had not anticipated. We feel sometimes that we want to run back to safer ground, but life has decided otherwise and so we take those next steps. Volume two of my diaries gives us a closeup of the years 1990 to 2002, bringing us an abundance of both joy and distress.”

Throughout the 1990s, Pearson records and laments her church’s efforts to punish scholars and activists while celebrating the success of her books and one-woman play, Mother Wove the Morning. Along the way, she comforts the suffering, endures terrible personal loss, and witnesses the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11. “Bless everyone who fights for what is right,” she writes.  Few have fought harder than Carol Lynn Pearson.

SUMMER 2026

paperback $29.95 | ebook $22.99

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The Diaries of Carol Lynn Pearson—Mormon Author,
Feminist, and Activist, Volume 2: 1990–2002

Carol Lynn Pearson

Of these years of her life, poet, writer, and feminist Carol Lynn Pearson says, “The plot thickens, as all good plots do. My life and your life—if we are brave enough—move into areas that we had not anticipated. We feel sometimes that we want to run back to safer ground, but life has decided otherwise and so we take those next steps. Volume two of my diaries gives us a closeup of the years 1990 to 2002, bringing us an abundance of both joy and distress.”

Throughout the 1990s, Pearson records and laments her church’s efforts to punish scholars and activists while celebrating the success of her books and one-woman play, Mother Wove the Morning. Along the way, she comforts the suffering, endures terrible personal loss, and witnesses the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11. “Bless everyone who fights for what is right,” she writes.  Few have fought harder than Carol Lynn Pearson.

SUMMER 2026

paperback $29.95 | ebook $22.99

Amazon

Carol Lynn Pearson sees herself as a troublemaker and a problem solver. A fourth-generation Latter-day Saint who grew up in Utah and now lives in California, she loves the church that molded her into a spirited feminist and activist. Her first collection of poems, Beginnings, surprisingly put her on the map in 1967, and was followed by numerous books, lyrics and stage plays. Goodbye, I Love You, published in 1986, tells of her marriage to Gerald Pearson, their four children, their divorce due to his homosexuality, and his death from AIDS as she cared for him in the family home. This book impacted Americans’ understanding of HIV and was a turning point in Mormondom’s perception of our LGBTQ+ people. For decades, Carol Lynn has been a beloved figure within her church community and beyond.

Diaries
ISBN: 978-1-56085-536-1