This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind (1979) - memoirs based on the author's life with his father and grandmother (nominated for National Book Award) Utopian America: Dreams and Realities (1976) - an anthology edited by Ivan Doig Streets We Have Come Down: Literature of the City (1975) - an anthology edited by Ivan Doig News: A Consumer's Guide (1972) - a media textbook coauthored by Carol Doig His works includes both fictional and non-fictional writings. As the western landscape and people play an important role in his fiction, he has been hailed as the new dean of western literature, a worthy successor to Wallace Stegner. His major theme is family life in the past, mixing personal memory and regional history. Much of his fiction is set in the Montana country of his youth. He lived with his wife Carol Doig, née Muller, a university professor of English, in Seattle, Washington.īefore Ivan Doig became a novelist, he wrote for newspapers and magazines as a free-lancer and worked for the United States Forest Service. in American history at the University of Washington, writing his dissertation about John J. After several stints on ranches, they moved to Dupuyer, Pondera County, Montana in the north to herd sheep close to the Rocky Mountain Front.Īfter his graduation from Valier high school, Doig attended Northwestern University, where he received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in journalism.
After the death of his mother Berneta, on his sixth birthday, he was raised by his father Charles "Charlie" Doig and his grandmother Elizabeth "Bessie" Ringer. In the immortal American tradition, the pair light out for the territory together, meeting a classic Doigian ensemble of characters and having rollicking misadventures along the way.Ĭharming, wise, and slyly funny, Last Bus to Wisdom is a last sweet gift from a writer whose books have bestowed untold pleasure on countless readers.Ivan Doig was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana to a family of homesteaders and ranch hands. But as it turns out, Donal isn't traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to fly the coop with him.
After one contretemps too many, Kate packs him back to the authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound. She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German, and Donal can't seem to get on her good side either.
There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate bossy, opinionated, argumentative, and tyrannical - is nothing like her sister. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The final novel from a great American storyteller.ĭonal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination.
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