By Doug Hare EBS Staff When Montana State University professor and poet Greg Keeler was asked why Montana has so many acclaimed authors compared to similarly populated states,...
By Doug Hare EBS Staff Wallace Stegner earned his reputation as the “dean of Western writers.” He wrote 30 books, founded the creative writing program at Stanford...
By Doug Hare EBS Staff BIG SKY – The Western Literature Association hosted their 51st annual conference Sept. 21-24, at Big Sky Resort’s Huntley Lodge. College professors,...
By Doug Hare EBS Staff Terry Tempest Williams is best known as the author of the environmental classic, “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Time and Place”...
Ivan Doig: Novelist By Doug Hare EBS Staff Too often, authors from Montana are pigeonholed as “regional writers.” Ivan Doig, who passed away in April of...
By Doug Hare EBS Staff William Kittredge grew up working on his family’s sprawling MC Ranch in the Warner Valley of southern Oregon, only deciding to...
By Doug Hare EBS Staff Jordan Fisher Smith’s first book, “Nature Noir” is an unromantic memoir of his experience as a park ranger in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. His sober account...
By Doug Hare EBS Staff Thomas McGuane has been writing for over five decades, and most of that time has been spent raising horses and cattle...
David James Duncan: River bard By Douglas Hare EBS Staff David James Duncan is best known as the author of “The River Why,” a novel about fly...
Jim Harrison: Literary outlaw