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Tom Robbins, Mark Siegel
Tom Robbins, Mark Siegel
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
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Leslie Marmon Silko, Per Seyersted
Leslie Marmon Silko, Per Seyersted
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
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Janet Lewis, Charles L. Crow
Janet Lewis, Charles L. Crow
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
Janet Lewis’s writing career has spanned nearly sixty years, long enough for her to reflect, were she interested in the subject, on the disparity between excellence and fame. She has published poetry, short stories, essays, children’s books, opera libretti, and novels. She has been praised by distinguished writers and critics, including Theodore Roethke and Donald Davie. Two of her novels, The Wife of Martin Guerre and The Trial of Soren Quist, have been hailed as masterpieces. She remains little known, however, even though she has a circle of enthusiastic admirers.
Dorothy Johnson, Judy Alter
Dorothy Johnson, Judy Alter
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
Although her work is primarily rooted in her home state of Montana, Dorothy Johnson was not born a Westerner. Her birthplace was a farm in McGregor, Iowa, a town in the heart of the Midwest. Born on December 19, 1905, she was christened Dorothy Marie Johnson and called Marie by friends and family until she went to college.
Joaquin Miller, Benjamin S. Lawson
Joaquin Miller, Benjamin S. Lawson
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
When Joaquin Miller died in 1913, he had been conspicuous on the American literary scene for over forty years. Given to seeing his literary career as an analogue to the actual exploration and settling of the West, he conceived, enacted, and recorded an eventful life in which he himself figures most prominently. Miller had created a public image, which was probably a self-image as well, of himself as writer and as Westerner. His prose and poetry are sometimes marked by the romantic excesses of Byron or Swinburne; and his life and work include picturesque posings as the Wild Westerner. But …