5/27/2023 0 Comments Dancing at the rascal fair review![]() He was living with his parents in a sheepherding camp when his mother died, of asthma, on his 6th birthday. He was born on June 27, 1939, in White Sulphur Springs, the only child of Charles Campbell "Charlie" Doig (1901-1971), a ranch hand, and Berneta Ringer Doig (1914-1945), a ranch cook. ![]() Ivan Clark Doig was a third-generation Montanan of Scottish heritage. "I don't think of myself as a 'Western' writer," he wrote on his website, "To me, language - the substance on the page, that poetry under the prose - is the ultimate 'region,' the true home, for a writer" ("A Note to Readers"). But he resisted efforts to pigeonhole him as a regional writer. His books all centered, in one way or another, on the people and landscapes of the American West. He also had a poet's gift for language, dropping silken sentences and lyrical phrases onto his pages with apparently effortless ease. He had a fetish for facts and a passion for detail. from the University of Washington) to anchor his books with realism. He used skills acquired as a journalist and as an academically trained historian (with a Ph.D. The author of 13 novels and three nonfiction books, including the acclaimed memoir This House of Sky, Doig was a masterful storyteller whose best work depicted a Montana that was "authentic down to the last fence rail" (McNamee). ![]() ![]() Ivan Doig spent much of his adult life in the Seattle area but his imagination rarely wandered far from his native Montana. ![]()
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