336 pages
35 images
“In this caring yet objective account of the novelist’s life, Jackson J. Benson uncovers the passions and demons in Guthrie’s life away from the desk, lending the biography meaning for general readers as well as writers.”—Washington Post
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
1. “By George, I’m Free!”
2. A Smart Aleck and a Wise Guy
3. Alone in a Small and Self-Contained City
4. Marriage, Family, and Separation
5. The First Novel and Plans for the Big One
6. The Big Break--the Nieman Fellowship
7. The Big Sky Triumph and Tracking The Way West
8. To Hollywood and Shane and the Move to Montana
9. Bucking the Myth: These Thousand Hills
10. Down in the Dumps--Drink and Divorce
11. Living with Janie and Courting Carol
12. The Old Man and the Young Woman Wed
13. Arfive and Speaking to the Young--Earth Day
14. The Twin Lakes Imbroglio and Building the “Barn”
15. “What Happened to Boone?”
16. Fair Land, Fair Land: The End of the Trail
17. Afterword: Fishing the Pishkun
Notes and Documentation
Index