Presented to: Mary Lythgoe Bradford
For: Leaving Home
An excerpt from this citation states, "The culmination of Mary Bradford's twenty years as an indefatigable practitioner and promoter of the personal essay, Leaving Home could with equal appropriateness be titled Going Home. The twenty-two essays treat from a distinctive point of view the universal experiences of growing up, moving out, and growing older, of losing parents and gaining children and seeing those children leaving home in their turn. Informed throughout by the author's characteristic insight, humor, and directness, Leaving Home is a significant contribution to Mormon letters."