Doig, Ivan
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Name (Latin)
Doig, Ivan
Date of birth
1939-06-27
Date of death
2015-04-09
Place of birth
Montana
Associated country
United States
Place of residence/headquarters
Seattle (Wash.)
Field of activity
West (U.S.)
History
Western stories
Occupation
Ranchers
Journalists
Periodical editors
Authors
Novelists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Doig, Ivan. Ivan Doig papers, 1960-1996(Ivan Doig (June 27, 1939-April 9, 2015), a third generation Montanan, was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. He grew up along the Rocky Mountain front where much of his writing takes place. A former ranch hand, newspaperman, and magazine editor, Doig graduated from Northwestern University where he received bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism. He earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington in 1969, and during his career was the recipient of three honorary doctorates. He lived in Seattle with his wife Carol, who taught the literature of the American West)
- Washington Post, Apr. 13, 2015:p. B5 (Ivan Doig. died April 9; born June 27, 1939)
- Ivan Doig (Ivan Doig (June 27, 1939-April 9, 2015) was an American author and novelist, widely known for his sixteen fiction and non-fiction books set mostly in his native Montana, celebrating the landscape and people of the post-war American West; wrote for newspapers and magazines as a free-lancer and worked for the United States Forest Service; served as an editorial writer for the Lindsay-Schaub newspaper chain and assistant editor of The Rotarian magazine in Evanston, Illinois) sidebar (Ivan Clark Doig, died Seattle, Washington ( (Wikipedia, March 17, 2020:) )
- His News ... 1972.
- His This house of sky, c1992:CIP t.p. (Ivan Doig) pub. info. (b. 1939, Montana)
- Sweet thunder, 2013:(Ivan Doing, b. in Montana; a former ranch hand, newspaperman, and magazine editor, with a Ph.D. in history; author of fiction and nonfiction; has been a National Book Award finalist and has received the Wallace Stegner Award, and a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association; he lives in Seattle.)