Author. He was a 20th-century American author who wrote "The Ox-Bow Incident" in 1940 and "The Track Of The Cat" in 1949. Both of these books were later adapted into successful Hollywood films. The films were about cowboys in the West, with plots about cattle rustlers and frontier law or the lack of it. After high school, he attended the University of Nevada at Reno, where his father was the college president. In 1945 he published an autobiographical novel, "The City of Trembling Leaves," and a collection of short stories, "The Watchful Gods and Other Stories," in 1950. Starting in 1941, he received annually for five years the coveted O Henry Award for his short stories. From 1954 to 1956, he was a professor of creative writing at the University of Montana. This was followed by the establishment of a creative writing program and teaching at San Francisco State University until 1962. In 1962 he returned to the University of Nevada at Reno, being writer-in-residence until his death. During the 1930s, he published four collections of poetry. He was one of the first inductees into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 1988.
Author. He was a 20th-century American author who wrote "The Ox-Bow Incident" in 1940 and "The Track Of The Cat" in 1949. Both of these books were later adapted into successful Hollywood films. The films were about cowboys in the West, with plots about cattle rustlers and frontier law or the lack of it. After high school, he attended the University of Nevada at Reno, where his father was the college president. In 1945 he published an autobiographical novel, "The City of Trembling Leaves," and a collection of short stories, "The Watchful Gods and Other Stories," in 1950. Starting in 1941, he received annually for five years the coveted O Henry Award for his short stories. From 1954 to 1956, he was a professor of creative writing at the University of Montana. This was followed by the establishment of a creative writing program and teaching at San Francisco State University until 1962. In 1962 he returned to the University of Nevada at Reno, being writer-in-residence until his death. During the 1930s, he published four collections of poetry. He was one of the first inductees into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 1988.
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