H. L. Davis

Harold Lenoir Davis ( * October 18, 1894 (according to other sources 1896) in Yoncalla, Oregon, † October 31, 1960 in San Antonio, Texas ) was an American writer, in 1936 for his novel Honey in the Horn Pulitzer Prizes for the Novel received.

Biography

Davis earned his livelihood by attending school by doing odd jobs and worked as a cow and sheep herder, packer, Surveyor, timekeeper worked on the railroad before he became deputy sheriff of Wasco County.

In 1932 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and laid in 1935 with Honey in the Horn his debut novel about the life of settlers in East Oregon at the beginning of the 20th century and was given for this in 1936 the prestigious Pulitzer Prize.

In the aftermath of the next anthology Proud Riders and Other Poems (1942 ), the other novels Harp of a Thousand Strings (1947 ), Beulah land (1949 ), Winds of Morning ( 1952) and The Distant Music (1957 ) published. He also published under the titles Team Bells Woke Me and Other Stories (1953) and Kettle of Fire ( 1959) and two collections of short stories, with Kettle of Fire also contained essays.