EBERSHOFF: When she married Brigham Young she was 24. SIMON: And she was how old when they married? So he was present in her life long before he became her spouse. He and the church led many of the economic institutions and he was a close family friend of her mother's, especially.
When she was growing up, he was also the political leader. He was her spiritual leader, the leader of their church in the Utah territory in the 1850s. EBERSHOFF: He had known her since she was an infant. When you say she married Brigham Young, what was their courtship like? I'm putting that in quotes.
And then after five years of marriage, divorced him and set out on a crusade, as she called it, to tell the truth about American polygamy. Her father had five wives and she ended up marrying her prophet, Brigham Young, as his 19th wife. She was born to two Mormons in 1844 and was raised in a Mormon church. SIMON: Ann Eliza was a real person, wasn't she? DAVID EBERSHOFF (Author, "The 19th Wife"): Thank you for having me. David Ebershoff joins us from our studios in New York. It brings a Mormon family line into the present day, in which the churches long ago renounced polygamy, but modern polygamists search for new wives online. Does being one of 19 spouses mean that someone can't also feel faith, fealty, even love? That's what David Ebershoff strives to explore in his new novel, "The 19th Wife," in which he tries to inhabit the mind and times of Ann Eliza Young, who was in fact the 19th wife of Brigham Young, the 19th century leader who helped found and build the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Mormons.īut the book is contemporary, as well as historical fiction. Imagine though, what it would be like to be one of 19 spouses and to feel a bit of both.
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