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The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark(Western Literature Series)

The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark(Western Literature Series)


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Walter Van Tilburg Clark, author of the classic novel ""The Ox-Bow Incident"", was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, who helped to change American literature by making the West and its vast, haunted landscapes a legitimate subject for serious fiction. But his career, which began so brilliantly, largely ended when he was still a comparatively young man, stifled by a paralyzing case of writer's block. Jackson J. Benson, one of the country's foremost literary biographers, has produced the first full-length biography of this brilliant, enigmatic figure, focusing on Clark's intellectual and literary life as a writer and teacher, and on his life in the transforming midcentury West of which he was so passionately a part. Available now for the first time in paperback, ""The Ox-Bow Man"" is both a remarkably astute and sensitive examination of a complex, ultimately anguished writer and a sage assessment of Clark's pivotal place in the literary history of the West. More than a biography, this is a compelling examination of the literary world of the twentieth-century West and of the evolution of Western writing at the hands of one of its greatest masters.

About the Author :
Jackson Benson has published ten books on modern American literature, among them The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer, which won the PEN-West USA Award for Non-Fiction, and Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work, which won the Evans Biography Award. Benson was professor of English and American literature at San Diego State University for thirty-one years until his retirement in 1998.

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"Benson gives us Clark, whole. He was a man's man, a brilliant, inexhaustible talker, a really good tennis player, a teacher who seemed to care more about his students than himself, a good father whose son Bob gave Benson access to materials very close to the heart, and a friend through thick and thin....Benson doesn't shy away from anything, and in the end you have to marvel at his subject, a man who genuinely stayed young, trying to approach the perfect." - Thomas Lyon, Western Historical Quarterly"


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  • ISBN-13: 9780874176919
  • Publisher: University of Nevada Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Nevada Press
  • Height: 230 mm
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 333 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0874176913
  • Publisher Date: 27 Jul 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Western Literature Series
  • Sub Title: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  • Width: 151 mm


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