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The Next Rodeo

New and Selected Essays

The Next Rodeo( )
Author: Kittredge, William
ISBN:978-1-55597-479-4
Publication Date:Nov 2007
Publisher:Graywolf Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $15.00
Book Description:

William Kittredge's relationship to the spare, often unforgiving Western landscape is fraught with contradictions. Having grown up on a cattle ranch in Oregon, he has an intimate connection to the vast landscape that was once vital to his family's trade. He has also witnessed, over many decades, the depletion of the West's natural resources due to overuse. InThe Next Rodeo, the author's luminous essays move effortlessly from the personal to the political. With grace and...
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Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Literary Collections / Essays
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.69 x 7.99 x 0.71 Inches
Book Weight:0.704 Pounds
Author Biography
Kittredge, William (Author)
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. 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.

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