Background
Solomon, Dorothy Jeanne Allred was born on June 24, 1949 in Salt Lake City. Daughter of Rulon Clark and Mabel (Finlayson) Allred.
( "Probably the best book ever written about polygamy. Ne...)
"Probably the best book ever written about polygamy. Neither an apologia nor an exposé."―Salt Lake City Tribune "I am the daughter of my father's fourth plural wife, twenty-eighth of forty-eight children―a middle kid, you might say." So begins this astonishing and poignant memoir of life in the family of Utah fundamentalist leader and naturopathic physician Rulon C. Allred. Since polygamy was abolished by manifesto in 1890, this is a story of secrecy and lies, of poverty and imprisonment and government raids. When raids threatened, the families were forced to scatter from their pastoral compound in Salt Lake City to the deserts of Mexico or the wilds of Montana. To follow the Lord's plan as dictated by the Principle, the human cost was huge. Eventually murder in its cruelest form entered when members of a rival fundamentalist group assassinated the author's father. Dorothy Solomon, monogamous herself, broke from the fundamentalist group because she yearned for equality and could not reconcile the laws of God (as practiced by polygamists) with the vastly different laws of the state. This poignant account chronicles her brave quest for personal identity. Originally published in hardcover under the title Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk.
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Solomon, Dorothy Jeanne Allred was born on June 24, 1949 in Salt Lake City. Daughter of Rulon Clark and Mabel (Finlayson) Allred.
Bachelor in Literature, Theater and Speech, University Utah, 1971. Master of Arts in Literature and Creative Writing, University Utah, 1981.
Storyteller, library Salt Lake City Library., 1971. Teacher Salt Lake School District, 1971-1974. Instructor University Utah/Columbia College, Salt Lake City, 1974-1980.
Writer-in-residence Utah Arts Council, 1980-1993. Human development trainer Lifespring, San Rafael, California, 1983-1987. Media specialist Rivendell Psychiatric Hospitals, West Jordan, Utah, 1987-1990.
Curriculum writer Positive Action Public, Twin Falls, Idaho, 1990-1996. Co-founder, vice president Rising Star Communications and Team Resource Associates, Salt Lake City, since 1994. Vice president Visionworks International, since 2003.
Board directors Rising Star Communications.
( "Probably the best book ever written about polygamy. Ne...)
Faith in God is more than a theoretical belief in Him. To have faith in God is to trust Him, to have confidence in Him, and to be willing to act on belief in Him. It is a principle of action and power.
Board directors The Children's Center, Salt Lake City, 1982-1985, Writers at Work, Park City, Utah, 1986-1989, Lifespring Foundation, San Rafael, California, 1985-1989. Member curriculum committee Salt Lake School District, 1971-1974. Coordinator (with Bruce Solomon) literature arts Utah Arts Festival "Performing Word", Salt Lake City, 1982.
Volunteer Big Sisters, Salt Lake City, 1970-1971. Coordinator community education Rivendell Conference, West Jordan, Utah, 1987-1989. Member polygamu outreach committee Utah Children, 1996.
Member Governor of Utah Safety Net Committee, 2004. Member Associated Writing Programs, Academy American Poets, Women Writing the West, Sierra Club, Amnesty International.
Married Bruce Craig Solomon, January 8, 1968. Children: Denise, Layla, Jeffrey, Laurie.