Lauren: I first learned about Mormonism when, at 26 and fresh out of Medill's MSJ program, I escaped my mother's desire to find me a good secretarial job by becoming a copy editor at a newspaper north of Salt Lake. They interviewed me on the phone, so I knew nothing about that world until I woke up and found myself living in it the morning after a night flight from Oklahoma. I eventually became editor of the Sunday books page, which meant we ran wire except for the books I wrote about myself. One of my most memorable interviews was with Dorothy Allred Solomon, whose book In My Father's House: A Memoir of Polygamy, had just come out. Her father was a polygamist with seven wives, though she chose monogamy herself. Another book rec: No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn Brodie. It got the author excommunicated and is quite an amazing read. Brodie would be the one to read first.