Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955)
Auteur de Letters from the Earth
A propos de l'auteur
A Harvard University graduate and impassioned student and teacher of American history and literature, Utah-born Bernard de Voto held faculty positions at Northwestern University and Harvard University. He was also the second editor of the Saturday Review of Literature and for many years wrote "The afficher plus Editor's Easy Chair" column in Harper's magazine. At Harvard, de Voto was the editor of the Mark Twain manuscripts and produced several works about Twain and his time. He is best known for his trilogy-The Year of Decision: 1846 (1943), Across the Wide Missouri (1947), and The Course of Empire (1952). For Across the Wide Missouri, he personally traced the western trails first blazed by Lewis and Clark. Although recent scholarship has changed many perceptions about the West, de Voto's splendid accounts continue to have wide appeal. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Bernard Augustine DeVoto (January 11, 1897 – November 13, 1955), American historian and author By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36707547
Œuvres de Bernard DeVoto
Letters from the Earth (1909) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions; Directeur de publication — 2,778 exemplaires
The Journals of Lewis and Clark The Dramatic Story of the First Journey across North America to the Pacific 1804-06 12 exemplaires
The House of Sun-Goes-Down 2 exemplaires
Minority report 2 exemplaires
We Accept with Pleasure 2 exemplaires
The Crooked Mile 2 exemplaires
The Chariot of Fire: An American Novel 2 exemplaires
Portrait of America 1 exemplaire
The Year of Decision 1847 A great authority on the taking of the continent describes a year which was the matrix of… 1 exemplaire
Across the wild west 1 exemplaire
Di là dal grande Missouri. Esplorazioni e spedizioni commerciali nelle Montagne Rocciose (1832-38) (1992) 1 exemplaire
Westward the course of empire 1 exemplaire
Lewis & Clarrk - Journals of the Expediton Vol 1 & 2 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Les aventures de Tom Sawyer (1876) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 32,877 exemplaires
Ethan Frome (1911) — Introduction, quelques éditions; Introduction, quelques éditions — 9,499 exemplaires
The Journals of Lewis and Clark {abridged, 1953} (1953) — Directeur de publication — 1,197 exemplaires
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West (1954) — Introduction — 787 exemplaires
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (1977) — Contributeur — 295 exemplaires
The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West (1991) — Contributeur — 258 exemplaires
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributeur — 132 exemplaires
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Contributeur — 55 exemplaires
Mark Twain in eruption : hitherto unpublished pages about men and events (1940) — Directeur de publication — 39 exemplaires
Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (1956) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
The Word from Weber County. A Centennial Anthology of our Best Writers (1996) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- DeVoto, Bernard
- Nom légal
- DeVoto, Bernard Augustine
- Autres noms
- August, John
Hewes, Cady - Date de naissance
- 1897-01-11
- Date de décès
- 1955-11-13
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Ogden, Utah, USA
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Cause du décès
- heart attack
- Lieux de résidence
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Études
- Harvard College (AB|1920)
- Professions
- historian
curator
editor
critic
novelist
essayist - Relations
- Devoto, Avis (wife)
Devoto, Mark (son) - Organisations
- Northwestern University
Harper's Magazine
The Saturday Review
Bread Loaf School of English
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
United States Army (WWI) - Prix et distinctions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1948)
Pulitzer Prize for History (1948)
Bancroft Prize (1948)
National Book Award for Nonfiction (1953)
Phi Beta Kappa (1920)
American Antiquarian Society (1945) - Courte biographie
- Born in Ogden, Utah to a Catholic mother and a Mormon father, Bernard De Voto became a historian, critic, novelist, educator, conservationist, and an authority on the life and works of Mark Twain.
Membres
Critiques
The Course of Empire. With maps by Erwin Raisz par Bernard DeVoto
Excellent and insightful. Could have used an editor
I won this book from Goodreads so I'm sorry to say I didn't care for it. The original copyright is 1948. It seems like it would fit right in on Mad Men but it was hard to enjoy in 2010.
America's greatest satirist takes on the not so Holy Bible and thumps it. Imagine the hymn to constipation sung on the Ark. Brilliant, laugh out loud sarcasm unleashed. Completely understandable that he left instructions for this not to be published until after his passing. The only ding is on this particular edition - no lettering on the spine and no page numbers But it was the only edition I could find readily available (I had lost a better edition years ago) and is still required reading. Highly recommended.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 28
- Aussi par
- 16
- Membres
- 4,639
- Popularité
- #5,437
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 68
- ISBN
- 99
- Langues
- 11
- Favoris
- 8
