De Voto
Americannoun
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To his desk went aggressive, irascible, 39-year-old Bernard De Voto, who had been a lecturer at Harvard, editor of The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, a successful contributor to the Satevepost, Red Book, Collier's.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the mid-20th century, when Bernard De Voto wrote Across the Wide Missouri, traffic on Western highways was clogging up with authors in vans, their kids and stalled novels left back home with parents.
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Bernard De Voto summed up this view in four words: "Genius is not enough."
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Writing in a prose style so vehement it sometimes seemed apoplectic, Editor De Voto raged at U. S. intellectuals, accusing them en masse of "misrepresenting" the country.
From Time Magazine Archive
Announcement by Bernard De Voto; pref., introd., emendations and corrections by Robert S. Forsythe. © on new material; 11Apr30; A6-21794.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1958 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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