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The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography Of Walter Van Tilburg Clark (Western Literature Series)
Jackson J. Benson
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Description for The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography Of Walter Van Tilburg Clark (Western Literature Series)
Paperback. Walter Van Tilburg Clark, author of the classic novel "The Ox-Bow Incident", was one of the important writers of the twentieth century. This work is an examination of a complex, anguished writer and an assessment of Clark's pivotal place in the literary history of the West. It is an examination of the literary world of the twentieth-century West. Series: Western Literature Series. Num Pages: 448 pages, 50 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 581.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874176919
SKU
V9780874176919
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About Jackson J. Benson
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography Of Walter Van Tilburg Clark (Western Literature Series)
"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 ... Read more