Todd Compton

Todd Compton is an independent historian who has written award-winning books in Mormon studies such as In Sacred Loneliness: the Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Signature Books, 1997); A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary (University of Utah Press, 2013); and, in collaboration with Charles Hatch, A Widow's Tale: The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Whitney (Utah State University Press, 2003). He is currently writing a biography of Navajo leader Totsohnii Hastiin (Ganado...See more

Todd Compton is an independent historian who has written award-winning books in Mormon studies such as In Sacred Loneliness: the Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Signature Books, 1997); A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary (University of Utah Press, 2013); and, in collaboration with Charles Hatch, A Widow's Tale: The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Whitney (Utah State University Press, 2003). He is currently writing a biography of Navajo leader Totsohnii Hastiin (Ganado Mucho), a friend of Jacob Hamblin in Arizona. Compton lives in the Bay area, California, with his wife and two children. See less