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333:." Although in passing acknowledging Wolfe's genius, DeVoto excoriated his lack of artistry, "Mr. Wolfe ... has written some of the finest fiction in our day. But a great part of what he writes is not fiction at all: it is only material with which he has struggled but which has defeated him... Until Mr. Wolfe develops more craftsmanship, he will not be the important novelist he is now widely accepted as being." DeVoto's essay was a decisive factor in Wolfe's subsequent cutting ties with Scribners and editor 1856: 1761: 1844: 469: 402:. "Historian Bernard DeVoto spoke for many liberals" in disdaining "the prominence ex-communists had gained in public life during the Cold War." He argued that despite the new-found patriotism of conservative ex-Communists, their commitments to absolutism and authoritarianism remained the same and continued to threaten freedom. 1832: 397:
was investigating radical professors and a Soviet takeover of America, DeVoto "mocked the conspiracy nuts" and yet was called "fascist" by the liberal critics. In the 1950s, he felt "a Communist or two on any faculty constituted a far smaller danger than the procedures that would be necessary to keep
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to Florian and Rhoda DeVoto. DeVoto's father was a Catholic of Italian descent, an educated, impoverished man; his mother was the daughter of a Mormon farmer; and their son was not accepted by either community. DeVoto attended
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described DeVoto as "flawed, brilliant, provocative, outrageous, ... often wrong, often spectacularly right, always stimulating, sometimes infuriating, and never, never dull."
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The decade between 1943 and 1953 saw the completion of what John L. Thomas called DeVoto's "magnificent trilogy of the discovery, settling, and exploitation of the West":
182:(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 381:(1953). A book on the history, geography, and ecology of the American West remained unfinished at his death in 1955; in 2001, an edited version was published as 1921: 255:. He also began publishing articles and novels (under the pseudonyms "John August" and "Cady Hewes"). In 1927 he resigned from Northwestern. He and his wife 1946: 1896: 1961: 1461: 1956: 867: 1951: 1936: 1911: 1906: 1410: 410: 811: 1891: 441: 1931: 1926: 1282: 1248: 1214: 1180: 1141: 1095: 953: 604: 371: 137: 1941: 1424: 1470: 868:"The Uneasy Chair A Biography of Bernard DeVoto. By Wallace Stegner. Illustrated. 464 pp. New York: Doubleday & Co. $ 12.50" 292:
and served as a curator and editor for Twain's papers; this work culminated in several publications, including the best-selling
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Wallace Stegner, The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto." (New York, Vintage Books, reprint 1988) pp. ix–x.
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column criticized "The Case of the Censorious Congressman" during Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and
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shortly before his death in 1938 and had a devastating effect on Wolfe's posthumous literary reputation.
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that DeVoto produced one of his most controversial pieces, "Genius is Not Enough," a scathing review of
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This American of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Struggle to Save the Wild
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in order to attempt to earn his living from writing along with part-time instructing at
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A Country of the Mind: Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, History, and the American Land
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in 1953. DeVoto was the first Utahn to win a Pulitzer. He also edited a selection of
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column, "The Easy Chair," which DeVoto wrote from 1935 until his death.
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is credited with bringing the influential work of Italian economist
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also played important roles in promoting interest in Pareto's work.
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DeVoto began his career in 1922 as an English instructor at
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The Selected Letters of Bernard DeVoto and Katharine Sterne
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Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History
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DeVoto's West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good
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from 1930 to 1932. A series of articles he published in
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Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Retrieved 2012-03-17. 456:DeVoto died on November 13, 1955 at age 58. 304:, after which he returned to Massachusetts. 1917:United States Army personnel of World War I 1381:Pioneer Conservationists of Western America 1274:The Cold War: Cold War Espionage and Spying 1531: 1517: 1509: 1125: 1123: 307:It was during his tenure as editor of the 281:to wide audiences. This led to a regular 42: 31: 27:American historian and author (1897–1955) 1243:. Rutgers University Press. p. 29. 1029:Past winners & finalists by category 944:. New York: Fawcett Columbine. pp.  903:(Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2012). 216:DeVoto was born on January 11, 1897, in 1827: 1167:A Literary History of the American West 735: 1322:Republished in 2010 by Tin House Books 1277:. Taylor & Francis. p. 335. 1209:. 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Index

Bernard De Voto

Ogden, Utah
Harvard University
Pulitzer Prize for History
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Avis DeVoto
Pulitzer-Prize
American West
Harper's Magazine
Adlai Stevenson
Wallace Stegner
Ogden, Utah
Ogden High School
Ogden Standard
University of Utah
Harvard University
World War I
Northwestern University
Avis
Massachusetts
Harvard University
Harper's Magazine
Vilfredo Pareto
Mark Twain
Letters From the Earth
Saturday Review of Literature
Thomas Wolfe
Of Time and the River
Mr. Perkins

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