The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Klappentext 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 and teacher, and on his life in the transforming midcentury West of which he was so passionately a part. Available now for the first time in paperback, The Ox-Bow Man is both a remarkably astute and sensitive examination of a complex, ultimately anguished writer and a sage assessment of Clark's pivotal place in the literary history of the West. More than a biography, this is a compelling examination of the literary world of the twentieth-century West and of the evolution of Western writing at the hands of one of its greatest masters. Zusammenfassung 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.

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Jackson J. Benson was professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University until his retirement in 1997. He is the author of twelve books on modern American literature, including Down by the Lemonade Springs: Essays on Wallace Stegner and Looking for Steinbeck's Ghost. He currently divides his time between La Mesa, California, and a cabin in the northern Sierra Nevada.

Résumé
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.