Scowcroft, Richard

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Scowcroft, Richard
Date of birth
1916-06-26
Date of death
2001-10-08
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
b. 1916
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 11087185
Wikidata: Q19663180
Library of congress: n 50004871
Sources of Information
  • Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1916)
  • His Children of the covenant, 1945.

Wikipedia description:

Richard Scowcroft (June 26, 1916 – October 8, 2001) was an American writer and teacher of writers long associated with Stanford University, where he co-founded the creative-writing program with, and ultimately succeeded, Wallace Stegner as director. Among the writers taught were Tillie Olsen, Wendell Berry, Robert Stone, Larry McMurtry, Karen Rosenbaum, Ed McClanahan, Ken Kesey, Scott Turow and Chuck Kinder. Scowcroft's work frequently featured themes based in his Mormon upbringing.

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