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Sixty-Four Years as a Writer$16.95 0-87004-453.2 Caxton Press Bill Gulick Bill Gulick’s writing career, spanning more than six decades, is truly remarkable. He has written twenty-seven novels, eight nonfiction books and several plays. He was a regular contributor to The Saturday Evening Post and other national magazines. His stories have become major motion pictures starring screen legends Burt Lancaster and Jimmy Stewart. A list of his literary friends reads like a Whose Who of Western Writing—Elmer Kelton, A. B. Guthrie, Max Evans, Don Coldsmith, Norman Fox, Tommy Thompson, William McCleod Raine, Nelson Nye and his mentor, Walter Stanley Vestal Campbell. Gulick is considered one of the foremost authorities on Pacific Northwest history. In Sixty-Four Years as a Writer, Gulick details the journey from his Depression era Oklahoma roots to his position as one of the nation’s premier Western authors. and abusive relationships—the dark side of early day rodeo. 6 x 9, paperback, illustrated, 368 pages, index. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
With Our Good Will30 Years of Shakespeare in Idaho $37.95 0-87004-456-7 Caxton Press Doug Copsey In 1977, a group of talented young artists came together with the hope of establishing a self-sustaining theater group in Boise, Idaho. Three decades later, the Idaho Shakespeare Festival has become a nationally-recognized community "happening." In With Our Good Will, Doug Copsey, one of the founders of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, tells the story of how it evolved -- detailing each season and profiling the people who played critical roles in the evolution of the festival. Hardcover, 12 x 10, 280 pages, 500 color photographs, index. [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Hemingway and the Natural World$39.95 ISBN 0-89301-214-9 University of Idaho Press Edited by Robert E. Fleming This groundbreaking essay collection is the first consolidated effort to study Hemingway’s relationship to the natural world. Cloth, 276 pages, index [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Minnesota Diary, 1942-46$39.95 ISBN 0-89301-219-x University of Idaho Press Edited by George Killough In 1930, Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature. During the 1940s, he kept this diary, which reveals the introspective man rather than an embattled celebrity author. Cloth, 320 pages, 9 photographs [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
At the Hemingways50 Years of Correspondence Between Ernest and Marcelline Hemingway $34.95 ISBN 0-89301-216-5 University of Idaho Press Marcelline Hemingway Sanford Marcelline Hemingway Sanford’s reminiscence of growing up with her younger brother Ernest in Oak Park, Illinois, includes eighty-one letters, cards, and telegrams between the two siblings. Cloth, 400 pages, 26 photographs, index [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Travelers in an Antique Land$29.95 ISBN 0-89301-203-3 University of Idaho Press Poems by William Studebaker Photographs by Russell Hepworth This elegant book delivers the emotional body blows only possible when artists boil prose down to poetry and render kaleidoscopic sceneryin black and white. To read Bill’s words and scan Russell’s images is to feel what it’s like to be on the high desert, free and alone—Diane Ronayne, Idaho Wildlife cloth, 10.5x10.5, 100 pages, 42 photographs [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Written on WaterEssays on Idaho Rivers $16.95 ISBN 0-89301-224-6 University of Idaho Press Edited by Mary Clearman Blew Award-winning author Mary Clearman Blew asked her friends and fellow writers from the Rockies to write intimately about the power of water on the human spirit. Essays include those by Kim Barnes, Robert Wrigley, Lance Olsen, John Rember, and Claire Davis. Paper, 204 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
The Great Poem of the EarthA Study of the Poetry of Thomas Hornsby Ferril $39.95 ISBN 0-89301-196-7 University of Idaho Press Andrew Elkins The first study of the great Colorado Poet Laureate and first poetic voice to emerge from the Rocky Mountain West. Winner of the 1998 Thomas J. Lyon Award. Cloth, 238 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
The World of David Wagoner$35.00 ISBN 0-89301-200-9 University of Idaho Press Ron McFarland The definitive biography of writer and poet David Wagoner, whose lifetime achievements have been largely ignored, until now. Cloth, 222 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
The Sunshine Mine Disaster$12.95 ISBN 0-89301-181-9 University of Idaho Press James Brock Brock’s poems poignantly express the grief that lingers from 1972 when the Sunshine Mine Disaster took the lives of ninety-one miners near Kellogg, Idaho. Paper, 75 pages [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
Rediscovering Vardis Fisher: Centennial Essays$34.95 ISBN 0-89301-223-8 University of Idaho Press Edited by Joseph M. Flora Vardis Fisher was one of Idaho’s most accomplished writers. His attention to western landscape and rural culture left a lasting, albeit controversial, legacy. These twelve evocative essays explore the impact and achievement of Fisher’s work and life. Cloth, 248 pages, 25 photographs [Add to Cart] [View Cart] |
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