Born June 27, 1939, Ivan Doig was a third-generation Montanan and grew up along the Rocky Mountain Front, the dramatic landscape that inspired much of his writing. A former ranch hand, newspaperman, and magazine editor, with a Ph.D. in history, Doig was the author of fourteen books, including the Indiebound bestseller Work Song and the classic memoir This House of Sky. He was a National Book Award finalist and had received the Wallace Stegner Award, a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association, and multiple PNBA and MPBA Book Awards, among other honors. He lived in Seattle before his death on April 9, 2015.
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