Bernard DeVoto

Author of The Year of Decision 1846

Also known as: DeVoto Bernard, Beranrd Devoto, Bernard De Voto, Bernard Devotot, Bernardo Devoto, DEVOTO BERNARDO ... (see complete list), Bernard DeVoto ed, Bernard A. De Voto, Bernard, ed. De Voto, Bernard DeVoto editor, Editor Bernard DeVoto, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Bernard - edited by Devoto, Bernard, Illustrated by Yes Devoto, Bernard Devoto; Foreword Arthur Schlesinger, Bernard Devoto; Illustrators And George Catlin Cha

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Bernard Augustine DeVoto (1897-1955), American historian and author. He also used the pseudonyms:John August and Cady Hewes
Please note: Letters from the Earth was written by Mark Twain. If you have this work, please list Mark Twain as the primary author, and use the "Other Authors" field to list Bernard DeVoto as Editor. This will allow your book to be combined with the copies on the Mark Twain author page.
Please note: The Journals of Lewis and Clark were written by...Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Bernard DeVoto edited an abridged, single-volume edition of the Journals. If your edition of the Journals appears with Bernard DeVoto as "author", please change the author to Meriwether Lewis, with Clark as secondary author and DeVoto as Editor, so your copy can join the other copies of the Journals.

Books by Bernard DeVoto

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The Year of Decision 1846 175 copies, 5 reviews
Across the Wide Missouri 132 copies, 5 reviews
The Journals of Lewis and Clark 121 copies, 1 review
The Course of Empire 114 copies
New Uncensored Writings By Mark Twain: Letters From The Earth 18 copies
Mountain Time 17 copies
Mark Twain's America 15 copies
The Western Paradox: A Bernard DeVoto Conservation Reader 10 copies
Mark Twain's America, and Mark Twain at work (Sentry edition 50) 9 copies
The Viking Portable Library: The Portable Mark Twain 9 copies
The letters of Bernard DeVoto 5 copies
The Hour 5 copies
Mark Twain: Letters From the Earth 4 copies
The World of Fiction 4 copies

DeVoto's West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good 3 copies

Mark Twain In Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events 3 copies

Mark Twain at Work 2 copies

Literary Fallacy 2 copies

THE LEWIS & CLARK JOURNALS 1 copy

The crooked mile, 1 copy

The Easy Chair 1 copy

We accept with pleasure 1 copy

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Canonical name

DeVoto, Bernard

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DeVoto, Bernard Augustine

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USA

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Ogden, Utah, USA (birth)

Education

University of Utah (1914-15, did not graduate)

Harvard University (1920)

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American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1948)

Northwestern University

Harper's Magazine

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Born in Ogden, Utah to a Catholic mother and a Mormon father, Bernard De Voto became a historian, critic, novelist, educator, conservationist, and an authority on the life and works of Mark Twain.

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