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Davis Country: H.L. Davis's Northwest (Northwest Readers)
Booth, Brian, Love, Glen A.
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Paperback. Editor(s): Booth, Brian; Love, Glen A. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 508.
Davis Country brings together a fascinating collection of the distinctive writings of H. L. (Harold Lenoir) Davis, one of the Northwest's premier writers and perhaps the most famous Oregon writer of his generation. His influence on Northwest literature is comparable to Mark Twain's on American literature. Born in southern Oregon's Umpqua Valley in 1894, Davis spent his teen years in Antelope and The Dalles working as a sheepherder, cattle puncher, typesetter, and deputy sheriff. He began writing poetry during World War I, but with the encouragement of H. L. Mencken, then America's foremost literary critic, he switched to prose. He ... Read more
Davis Country brings together a fascinating collection of the distinctive writings of H. L. (Harold Lenoir) Davis, one of the Northwest's premier writers and perhaps the most famous Oregon writer of his generation. His influence on Northwest literature is comparable to Mark Twain's on American literature. Born in southern Oregon's Umpqua Valley in 1894, Davis spent his teen years in Antelope and The Dalles working as a sheepherder, cattle puncher, typesetter, and deputy sheriff. He began writing poetry during World War I, but with the encouragement of H. L. Mencken, then America's foremost literary critic, he switched to prose. He ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Corvallis, OR, United States
ISBN
9780870715778
SKU
V9780870715778
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