William Kittredge (1932–2020)
Autor de The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology
Sobre El Autor
William Kittredge was an American writer, born August 14, 1932 in Portland, Oregon. He grew up in Portland and was a rancher until he was 35. He graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in agriculture, and from the University of Iowa with a M.F.A. He spent most of his life in Montana. mostrar más He spent most of his life in Montana. He taught creative writing at the University of Montana in Missoula, MT for 30 years. His writing focused on the west. He wrote fourteen books, and published essays and articles in major magazines and newspapers. His work includes novels, Phantom Silver (1987) and The Willow Field (2007). His nonfiction includes Owning it All (1987), Hole in the Sky: A Memoir (1992), The Nature of Generosity (2001), and The Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essays (2006). He edited an anthology with Annick Smith, The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology (1990). His awards included a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford and Writing Fellowships from the Endowment for the Arts. In 2017, received a Lifetime Achievement Award the at Montana Book Festival. William Kittredge died on December 4, 2020 in Missoula, Montana. He was 88 years old. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Raymond Meeks
Obras de William Kittredge
The Van Gogh Field {short story} 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1932-08-14
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2020-12-04
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Missoula, Montana, USA
- Educación
- University of Oregon (B.S.)
University of Iowa (M.F.A.) - Ocupaciones
- cattle rancher
writer
professor
author - Premios y honores
- Charles Frankel Prize (1994)
Robert Kirsch Award (2006)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (2007)
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- También por
- 8
- Miembros
- 973
- Popularidad
- #26,474
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 15
- ISBNs
- 39
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
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I picked this up while my husband and I were staying in Oregon for six months with his job. I like to read books set in the state we’re currently in and Hole in the Sky showed up as a nonfiction pick on the lists I work from (Literary Hub and Book Riot, if you’re curious).
I just couldn’t click with this book.
Kittredge does write beautifully and he writes of a way of life that seems to be disappearing. He writes fondly of the hands who worked the ranch, some of them for years and years for little more than room and board. He describes the difficult land in the salt flats of eastern Oregon and northern Nevada. Readers share in the stark beauty of the harsh land even as his family is bending it to their will with irrigation pipes and heavy equipment.
The rest of this review doesn’t feel fair, but it’s how I feel. The toxic masculinity put me right off. Kittredge himself acknowledges that he grew up on a hard land that made the people hard. He recognizes that his own extended adolescence lasted at least into his 30s. He liked to throw his weight around when he had authority and he was unreasonably hard on his men even while he was trying to get away with his own drunken workdays. He neglected his children and cheated on his wife shamelessly. And he acknowledges in the book that none of this was right or good. I applaud him for admitting his own faults and putting them out there for anyone to read but I disliked the young man in these pages and, rightly or wrongly, that colored my perception of the entire book.
Readers who are better able to separate the author from the work and the older, wiser man from the younger, more foolish one will enjoy this more than I did. It is at its heart a reflection on a way of life that has all but disappeared.… (más)