H. Michael Marquardt (born July 1944)[1][2] is an independent researcher of the Latter Day Saint movement.
[10][8] He was a collaborator with Wesley P. Walters, and made some of the first critical arguments for a different timeline of early Mormonism.
[9] Hofmann frequently called and met with Marquardt, using his extensive knowledge of LDS Church history and extensive connections within the LDS Church critical history community to perpetuate his fraud.
[6] Marquardt and Wesley P. Walters's book Inventing Mormonism: Tradition and the Historical Record was published in 1998.
[12] In 2014, Marquardt won the Best Documentary History Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association (JWHA) for his book Joseph Smiths 1828-1843 Revelations.