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The Selected Letters of Bernard Devoto and Katharine Sterne by and annotated by Mark DeVoto is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was a historian, critic, editor, professor, political commentator, and conservationist, and above all a writer of comprehensive skill. As a contributor for more than thirty years to "Harper's" and other magazines, he was known for his forceful opinions. His essays were often brash and opinionated and kept him in the public limelight. One stinging essay even led the FBI to create a file on him. His five serious novels are forgotten today, but his magazine short stories and the well-paid potboilers that he wrote under a pseudonym (John August) subsidized the first of the significant works of American history that brought DeVoto lasting fame. Four of his historical works, all still in print, are "The Year of Decision: 1846," a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in 1943; "Across the Wide Missouri," which won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1948; 1953 National Book Award-winning "The Course of Empire"; and his popular abridged edition of the "Journals of Lewis and Clark," which also appeared in 1953. A busy man with a busy life, DeVoto found time to write and answer letters in abundance. In 1933 he received a fan letter from Katharine Sterne, a young woman hosp
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- and annotated by Mark DeVoto
- Publisher
- The University of Utah Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781607812241
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Collections, Memoir, Literary Fiction