Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison. University of Utah.
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Career
As a young man Cracroft served an Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) mission in the Swiss-Austrian mission. Cracroft received his bachelor"s degree in English from the University of Utah in 1961. An Master of Arts in English in 1963.
He then went on to receive his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1970 (1969).
Along with Neal Lambert, Cracroft was the editor of an anthology of Latter-day Saint literature entitled A Believing People. Besides writing a large number of literary essays, reviews, Cracroft wrote a short story entitled That My Soul Might Secretary
He also wrote and edited 13 books, three of them collections of 20th-century literary biographies of Western American authors, and sponsored several conferences about literature and belief, among them,Spiritual Frontiers: Beliefs and Values in the Literary West as well as a work on Washington Irving"s Western-themed writing. Cracroft has also written articles on European literary views of the American west in the 19th century.
He was a founding editor of Literature and Belief.
He was president of the Switzerland Zurich Mission from 1986-1989.
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United States