Maurine Whipple won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Prize in 1938 .
Maurine Whipple published The Giant Joshua ( 1941 ) , which presented plural marriage as a test of faith similar to colonizing Utah 's desert .
Maurine Whipple won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Prize in 1938 and published The Giant Joshua ( 1941 ) , which presented plural marriage as a test of faith similar to colonizing Utah 's desert .