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Ivan Doig (June 27, 1939 – April 9, 2015) was an American author and novelist, widely known for his seventeen fiction and non-fiction books set mostly in his native Montana, celebrating the landscape and people of the post-war American West. With settings ranging from the Rocky Mountain Front to Alaska’s coast, Puget Sound and Oregon, the Chicago Tribune noted in 1987 that Doig wrote of "immigrant families, dedicated schoolteachers, miners, fur trappers, town builders"〔 and of "the uncertainties of friendship and love, and colossal battles of will, set amid the vast unpredictabilities of a land noted for sudden deadly floods, agonizing droughts, blizzards and forest fires."〔 Doig himself would later say "I come from the lariat proletariat, the working-class point of view."〔 ''This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind'', Doig's 1977 memoir, was finalist for the National Book Award for Contemporary Thought. In 2007 Doig won the University of Colorado's Center of the American West's Wallace Stegner Award.〔 Doig's 2006 novel ''The Whistling Season'' became a New York Times best-seller. He won the Western Literature Association's lifetime Distinguished Achievement award〔 and held the distinction of the only living author with works of both fiction and non-fiction listed in the top 12 of the San Francisco Chronicle poll of best books of the 20th century. In 2006, Sven Birkerts described Doig as "a presiding figure in the literature of the American West." ==Early life== Doig was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana to Charles "Charlie" Doig, ranch hand and Bernita Ringer Doig,〔 ranch cook. After the death of his mother on his sixth birthday, he was raised by his father and his grandmother Elizabeth "Bessie" Ringer. Doig moved with his father and grandmother on a series of jobs, the ranch equivalent of sharecropping, subsequently moving to Dupuyer, Montana to herd sheep close to the Rocky Mountain Front. As a child, Doig read comics, sports pages and magazines like Life, Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post.〔 Doig graduated in class of 21 students from Valier High School in Valier, Montana.〔 Doig earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. His master's thesis was on the subject of televised congressional hearings on organized crime. He later earned a Ph.D. in American history at the University of Washington, writing his dissertation on John J. McGilvra (1827-1903). Important first-hand influences on his writing included his high school English and Latin teacher, Frances Tidyman; Sam Jamison, who taught him reporting at Northwestern; and Ben Baldwin, who taught him broadcast news.〔 Doig lived with his wife Carol Doig, née Muller, a university professor of English, in Seattle, Washington until his death from multiple myeloma in 2015.〔("Acclaimed Montana author Ivan Doig dies at 75," ) ''The Billings Gazette'', April 9, 2015.〕 He was related to Fully Informed Jury Association co-founder, Don Doig.〔Montana FIJA (Events, * Montana FIJAFest, August 21-23 (Thursday-Saturday), 2014. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ivan Doig」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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