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Bernard Augustine DeVoto (January 11, 1897 – November 13, 1955) was an American historian, conservationist, essayist, columnist, teacher, editor, and reviewer. He was the author of a series of Pulitzer-Prize -winning popular histories of the American West and for many years wrote The Easy Chair, an influential column in Harper's ...
21 de may. de 2003 · In an intensely active career Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) achieved a national reputation as a journalist, essayist, novelist, literary critic, historian, college teacher, conservationist, and all-around professional writer. He once referred to himself as “a literary department store.”
Bernard De Voto (born January 11, 1897, Ogden, Utah, U.S.—died November 13, 1955, New York, New York) was an American novelist, journalist, historian, and critic, best known for his works on American literature and the history of the Western frontier.
30 de dic. de 2015 · In an active career Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was a journalist, essayist, novelist, literary critic, historian, conservationist, college teacher, and all-around professional writer who once said in a letter, “I am a literary department store.”.
Bernard Augustine DeVoto, born January 11, 1897 in Ogden, Utah, was a significant American historian, memoirist, columnist, teacher, and journalist. The son of a Catholic father and Mormon mother, Devoto grew up with an appreciation for the Utah culture that surrounded him, focusing much of his...
Bernard DeVoto received his elementary education at Sacred Heart Academy in Ogden before entering Ogden High School, from which he graduated in 1914. Following his freshman year at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, he transferred to Harvard College as a member of the Class of 1918.
4 de ago. de 2022 · This is both our West and the West of Bernard DeVoto, the mid-20th-century historian and conservationist whom Wallace Stegner once dubbed “the nation’s environmental conscience.”
