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Bernard DeVoto Fast Facts
Birthday
*** ,1897
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November 13, 1955 (58 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Capricorn
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Celebrities born on January 11
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Bernard DeVoto
Bernard Augustine DeVoto, historian, essayist, columnist, teacher, editor, and American critic, has always been a supporter of American public lands and conservation of public resources. as well as an outspoken defender of civil liberties. He is the author of a series of famous Pulitzer Prize-winning Western America and for many years has written The Easy Chair, an influential column for Harper Magazine. DeVoto also wrote a number of popular novels and during the 1950s he served as a lyricist for Adlai Stevenson. His friend and biographer Wallace Stegner described Devoto as "flawed, brilliant, provocative, infamous, ... often wrong, often spectacularly true, always stimulating, sometimes angry, and never, never boring ".
BornBernard Augustine DeVoto, January 11, 1897, Ogden, Utah
DiedNovember 13, 1955, New York City
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Period1932–1955
GenreHistory
SubjectWestern United States
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for History (1948), National Book Award for Nonfiction (1953)
SpouseAvis DeVoto
ChildrenGordon DeVoto, Mark DeVoto

About Bernard DeVoto

Novelist Bernard DeVoto was born in Utah, United States on January 11, 1897. He dies at the age of 58, on November 13, 1955.

He was an author and expert on the American West who earned the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his historical essay Across the Wide Missouri. The House of Sun-Goes-Down, The Year of Decision: 1846, and Novelist Mark Twain at Work are among his other writings.

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Bernard DeVoto before becoming famous

Bernard DeVoto was born in the Zodiac sign Capricorn (The Sea-Goat), and 1897 is also the year of Rooster (雞) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He took a break from his studies at Harvard to fight in World War I. He afterwards went on to Northwestern University to teach English.

Achievement of Bernard DeVoto

For The Course of Empire, a non-fiction work published in 1952, he won a National Book Award.

Bernard DeVoto's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He was born and raised in Ogden, Utah. He had two boys with his wife, Avis DeVoto: Mark and Gordon.

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Both he and Punk Singer Patti Smith have won the National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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Bernard DeVoto Income & Net worth

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