In Popular Culture
- Lucy Harris is portrayed in the comedy series South Park in an episode "All About the Mormons?" which shows her talking her husband into hiding Smith's original manuscript. She is shown as a skeptic of Joseph Smith Jr, eliciting the only break from the chorus's "Joseph Smith was called a prophet, dum dum dum dum dum." theme with "Lucy Harris smart smart smart, Martin Harris dumb."
- Author Christopher Hitchens uses the Lucy Harris story as proof that Joseph Smith was not a prophet, and that Smith was therefore a fraud, in his book God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.
Both the Hitchens and South Park references were based on Fawn Brodie's biography No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, which first asserted the claim that Lucy Harris stole the manuscript.
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