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Autobiography is a literary form and a way of writing history. Like all literary forms, autobiography is selective. Even the most candid and comprehensive of autobiographies-for whatever reasons, including privacy and space available-must make choices regarding just exactly what should be told. In the case of The Sun Never Sets: Reflections on a Western Life by L. W. "Bill" Lane, Jr., autobiography and history converge. Bill Lane tells us his story of growing up in the Midwest, moving with his family to California, and becoming a citizen of the West, and also recounts, from the inside, the history of Sunset magazine, which under Lane family ownership became an enormously influential publication, and which made all of Bill's varied accomplishments possible, including this fascinating memoir. Bill Lane's story began in Iowa and remained rooted in Midwestern values, but was transformed when his family relocated to California in 1928 after his father purchased Sunset magazine. That story then expanded into the Santa Clara Valley and the Yosemite Valley during Bill's teenage years and anchored itself in the travertine and russet-tiled cloisters of Stanford University, which for Bill Lan

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN