A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Junior ( born January 13, 1901 in Bedford, Indiana, † April 26, 1991 in Choteau, Montana ) was an American journalist and writer who for his novel The Way West won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Life

After schooling, he studied journalism at the University of Montana and graduated in 1923 with a Bachelor's degree ( BA Journalism ) from. Later, he was from 1926 to 1947 worked as a journalist for the daily newspaper, The Lexington Leader.

1943 appeared with Murders at Moon Dance ( 1943) his debut novel, the 1947 The Big Sky was followed (1952 filmed ). In 1949 he published The Way West, who in 1950 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. At the Academy Awards in 1954 he was nominated for Adapted Screenplay the screenplay for the movie Shane for an Oscar in the category Best.

After another novel (These Thousand Hills (1956 ) ), he published The Big It ( 1960) a collection of short stories, and in 1965 his memoirs under the title The Big Hen's Chick: A Life In Context. 1967 his breakthrough novel The Way West by Andrew V. McLaglen was filmed under the title The Way West with a star-studded ( Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Richard Widmark ), where he collaborated on the screenplay.

Later he published with Wild Pitch (1973 ), The Genuine Article (1977) and No Second Wind (1980 ) three more novels. Shortly before his death, he published A Field Guide to Writing Fiction ( 1991), a guide for writers.

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