Richard Van Wagoner

RICHARD S. VAN WAGONER, a clinical audiologist, is the owner of Mountain West Hearing Center in Salt Lake City. He is the author, among other books, of Mor￾mon Polygamy: A History and Sidney Rigdon: a Portrait of Religious Excess. The Mor￾mon History Association recognized the latter work as "the best biography in the field of Mormon History in 1995" while the John Whitmer Historical Society ac￾corded it the "Best Book Award." Mr. Van Wagoner is a member of the board of editors of both Signature Books and the Utah Historical Quarterly and has pub￾lished extensively on Western American and Mormon histor