Books by A. B. Guthrie
A. B. Guthrie Biography & Notes
A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (1901 - 1991) was an American novelist, historian, and literary historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1950 for his The Way West. The author's full name was Arthur Bertram Guthrie, Jr., though he was called "Bud" by his intimates.
Guthrie was born in Indiana but moved to Montana as an infant. He attended school in Montana and worked in his father's newspaper. While in college, at the University of Montana School of Journalism, he worked in the United States Forest Service in the summers. He moved to Kentucky and married Harriet Helen Larson in 1931.
Murders at Moon Dance came out in 1943. The Big Sky appeared in 1947, with a young person's edition in 1950. The Way West, a novel about the journey of American expansion in the old west, appeared in 1949. Guthrie continued to write predominantly western subjects, including the Academy Award winning script to the landmark film Shane in 1953 and the novel These Thousand Hills in 1956. In 1960, he published his first collection of short stories, The Big It and Other Stories.
Guthrie was born in Indiana but moved to Montana as an infant. He attended school in Montana and worked in his father's newspaper. While in college, at the University of Montana School of Journalism, he worked in the United States Forest Service in the summers. He moved to Kentucky and married Harriet Helen Larson in 1931.
Murders at Moon Dance came out in 1943. The Big Sky appeared in 1947, with a young person's edition in 1950. The Way West, a novel about the journey of American expansion in the old west, appeared in 1949. Guthrie continued to write predominantly western subjects, including the Academy Award winning script to the landmark film Shane in 1953 and the novel These Thousand Hills in 1956. In 1960, he published his first collection of short stories, The Big It and Other Stories.
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The Blue Hen's Chick An Autobiography by A. B. Guthrie ( 1993)
The novelist recounts his youth in the West as the age of the Wild West passed and describes his literary career.
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Four Miles from Ear Mountain by A. B. Guthrie ( 1987) |
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The Genuine Article by A. B. Guthrie ( 2010) |
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Images from the Great West by A. B. Guthrie ( 1990)
Guthrie's book includes stirring photographs and a contribution from environmentalist Edward Abbey.
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Murder in the Cotswolds by A. B. Guthrie ( 1990)
Vacationing in an English village, Montana sheriff Chick Charleston and his wife decide to investigate when an unpopular guest at their inn is found murdered.
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Murders at Moon Dance by A. B. Guthrie ( 1993)
At a difficult and sad time in his family life, future Pulitzer Prize-winner Guthrie turned to reading western and whodunit novels. It was then that he realized that he could write as well as current plot-spinners. He decided to combine the two genres, and the result was his first novel, Murders at Moon Dance, which appeared in 1943.
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Murders at Moon Dance/Large Print by A. B. Guthrie ( 1994) |
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Once upon a Pond by A. B. Guthrie ( 1973) |
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These Thousand Hills by A. B. Guthrie ( 1995)
First published in 1956, 'These Thousand Hills' continues the western epic of A.B. Guthrie, Jr.'s critically acclaimed Big Sky series and follows, in the era it precisely reinvents, Guthrie's 'Fair Land, Fair Land.' Conjuring up the ephemeral world of cattle ranchers on the Montana expanses of the 1880s, this intimate saga delights in the frontier's conniving, roaming eccentrics as they chase after love and their unbridled ambitions.
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