Obituary sent by Starfishin, member 48860385:
"Ivan Doig ’61, ’62 MS, Seattle, April 9, at age 75. One of the most celebrated writers of the American West, Mr. Doig grew up in Montana on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, baling hay and herding sheep. Those experiences informed the engaging tales he wove in his 16 books.
"Among his works, the memoir This House of Sky: Landscapes of the Western Mind (Mariner Books, 1980) was a finalist for a National Book Award in 1979. It chronicled his youth — raised by his ranch hand father and his maternal grandmother — and his time at Northwestern, which he called “a moon shot.” After working as a writer and editor in the Chicago area, Mr. Doig and his wife, Carol Muller Doig ’55, ’56 MS, left Evanston for Seattle, sight unseen, where he earned a doctorate in history at the University of Washington.
"Although Mr. Doig wrote almost exclusively fiction, all of his stories were grounded in reality. “It ain’t particularly real to me until I pound it out of a keyboard, until I hear somebody say it, until I go out and take a look at it myself,” he said in a 1992 Northwestern Perspective profile. His meticulous research, copious notes and informative oral histories set his novels apart, allowing readers to experience the story as the characters did.
"Mr. Doig received the Wallace Stegner Award in 2007, recognizing him for his “sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West,” and a lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association.
"Mr. Doig’s Last Bus to Wisdom, inspired by his youth in Montana, will be published in August. He is survived by his wife, whom he met when they taught journalism together as Cherub counselors in Northwestern’s National High School Institute."
Published in Northwestern, Northwestern University Magazine , Summer 2015
From Wikipedia:
"American Novelist. He was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana to a family of homesteaders and ranch hands. 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. After several stints on ranches, they moved to Dupuyer, Montana in the north to herd sheep close to the Rocky Mountain Front. After his graduation from Valier High School, Doig attended Northwestern University, where he received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in journalism. He later earned a Ph.D. in American history at the University of Washington, writing his dissertation about John J. McGilvra (1827-1903). He lived with his wife Carol Doig, née Muller, a university professor of English, in Seattle, Washington until his death from multiple myeloma in 2015. Before Doig became a novelist, he wrote for newspapers and magazines as a free-lancer and worked for the United States Forest Service. Much of his fiction is set in the Montana country of his youth. His major theme is family life in the past, mixing personal memory and regional history. The first three Montana novels—English Creek, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, and Ride with Me, Mariah Montana—form the so-called "McCaskill trilogy", covering the first centennial of Montana's statehood from 1889 to 1989. 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."
"Ivan Doig ’61, ’62 MS, Seattle, April 9, at age 75. One of the most celebrated writers of the American West, Mr. Doig grew up in Montana on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, baling hay and herding sheep. Those experiences informed the engaging tales he wove in his 16 books.
"Among his works, the memoir This House of Sky: Landscapes of the Western Mind (Mariner Books, 1980) was a finalist for a National Book Award in 1979. It chronicled his youth — raised by his ranch hand father and his maternal grandmother — and his time at Northwestern, which he called “a moon shot.” After working as a writer and editor in the Chicago area, Mr. Doig and his wife, Carol Muller Doig ’55, ’56 MS, left Evanston for Seattle, sight unseen, where he earned a doctorate in history at the University of Washington.
"Although Mr. Doig wrote almost exclusively fiction, all of his stories were grounded in reality. “It ain’t particularly real to me until I pound it out of a keyboard, until I hear somebody say it, until I go out and take a look at it myself,” he said in a 1992 Northwestern Perspective profile. His meticulous research, copious notes and informative oral histories set his novels apart, allowing readers to experience the story as the characters did.
"Mr. Doig received the Wallace Stegner Award in 2007, recognizing him for his “sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West,” and a lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association.
"Mr. Doig’s Last Bus to Wisdom, inspired by his youth in Montana, will be published in August. He is survived by his wife, whom he met when they taught journalism together as Cherub counselors in Northwestern’s National High School Institute."
Published in Northwestern, Northwestern University Magazine , Summer 2015
From Wikipedia:
"American Novelist. He was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana to a family of homesteaders and ranch hands. 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. After several stints on ranches, they moved to Dupuyer, Montana in the north to herd sheep close to the Rocky Mountain Front. After his graduation from Valier High School, Doig attended Northwestern University, where he received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in journalism. He later earned a Ph.D. in American history at the University of Washington, writing his dissertation about John J. McGilvra (1827-1903). He lived with his wife Carol Doig, née Muller, a university professor of English, in Seattle, Washington until his death from multiple myeloma in 2015. Before Doig became a novelist, he wrote for newspapers and magazines as a free-lancer and worked for the United States Forest Service. Much of his fiction is set in the Montana country of his youth. His major theme is family life in the past, mixing personal memory and regional history. The first three Montana novels—English Creek, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, and Ride with Me, Mariah Montana—form the so-called "McCaskill trilogy", covering the first centennial of Montana's statehood from 1889 to 1989. 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."
Obituary sent by Starfishin, member 48860385:
"Ivan Doig ’61, ’62 MS, Seattle, April 9, at age 75. One of the most celebrated writers of the American West, Mr. Doig grew up in Montana on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, baling hay and herding sheep. Those experiences informed the engaging tales he wove in his 16 books.
"Among his works, the memoir This House of Sky: Landscapes of the Western Mind (Mariner Books, 1980) was a finalist for a National Book Award in 1979. It chronicled his youth — raised by his ranch hand father and his maternal grandmother — and his time at Northwestern, which he called “a moon shot.” After working as a writer and editor in the Chicago area, Mr. Doig and his wife, Carol Muller Doig ’55, ’56 MS, left Evanston for Seattle, sight unseen, where he earned a doctorate in history at the University of Washington.
"Although Mr. Doig wrote almost exclusively fiction, all of his stories were grounded in reality. “It ain’t particularly real to me until I pound it out of a keyboard, until I hear somebody say it, until I go out and take a look at it myself,” he said in a 1992 Northwestern Perspective profile. His meticulous research, copious notes and informative oral histories set his novels apart, allowing readers to experience the story as the characters did.
"Mr. Doig received the Wallace Stegner Award in 2007, recognizing him for his “sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West,” and a lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association.
"Mr. Doig’s Last Bus to Wisdom, inspired by his youth in Montana, will be published in August. He is survived by his wife, whom he met when they taught journalism together as Cherub counselors in Northwestern’s National High School Institute."
Published in Northwestern, Northwestern University Magazine , Summer 2015
From Wikipedia:
"American Novelist. He was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana to a family of homesteaders and ranch hands. 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. After several stints on ranches, they moved to Dupuyer, Montana in the north to herd sheep close to the Rocky Mountain Front. After his graduation from Valier High School, Doig attended Northwestern University, where he received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in journalism. He later earned a Ph.D. in American history at the University of Washington, writing his dissertation about John J. McGilvra (1827-1903). He lived with his wife Carol Doig, née Muller, a university professor of English, in Seattle, Washington until his death from multiple myeloma in 2015. Before Doig became a novelist, he wrote for newspapers and magazines as a free-lancer and worked for the United States Forest Service. Much of his fiction is set in the Montana country of his youth. His major theme is family life in the past, mixing personal memory and regional history. The first three Montana novels—English Creek, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, and Ride with Me, Mariah Montana—form the so-called "McCaskill trilogy", covering the first centennial of Montana's statehood from 1889 to 1989. 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."
"Ivan Doig ’61, ’62 MS, Seattle, April 9, at age 75. One of the most celebrated writers of the American West, Mr. Doig grew up in Montana on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, baling hay and herding sheep. Those experiences informed the engaging tales he wove in his 16 books.
"Among his works, the memoir This House of Sky: Landscapes of the Western Mind (Mariner Books, 1980) was a finalist for a National Book Award in 1979. It chronicled his youth — raised by his ranch hand father and his maternal grandmother — and his time at Northwestern, which he called “a moon shot.” After working as a writer and editor in the Chicago area, Mr. Doig and his wife, Carol Muller Doig ’55, ’56 MS, left Evanston for Seattle, sight unseen, where he earned a doctorate in history at the University of Washington.
"Although Mr. Doig wrote almost exclusively fiction, all of his stories were grounded in reality. “It ain’t particularly real to me until I pound it out of a keyboard, until I hear somebody say it, until I go out and take a look at it myself,” he said in a 1992 Northwestern Perspective profile. His meticulous research, copious notes and informative oral histories set his novels apart, allowing readers to experience the story as the characters did.
"Mr. Doig received the Wallace Stegner Award in 2007, recognizing him for his “sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West,” and a lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association.
"Mr. Doig’s Last Bus to Wisdom, inspired by his youth in Montana, will be published in August. He is survived by his wife, whom he met when they taught journalism together as Cherub counselors in Northwestern’s National High School Institute."
Published in Northwestern, Northwestern University Magazine , Summer 2015
From Wikipedia:
"American Novelist. He was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana to a family of homesteaders and ranch hands. 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. After several stints on ranches, they moved to Dupuyer, Montana in the north to herd sheep close to the Rocky Mountain Front. After his graduation from Valier High School, Doig attended Northwestern University, where he received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in journalism. He later earned a Ph.D. in American history at the University of Washington, writing his dissertation about John J. McGilvra (1827-1903). He lived with his wife Carol Doig, née Muller, a university professor of English, in Seattle, Washington until his death from multiple myeloma in 2015. Before Doig became a novelist, he wrote for newspapers and magazines as a free-lancer and worked for the United States Forest Service. Much of his fiction is set in the Montana country of his youth. His major theme is family life in the past, mixing personal memory and regional history. The first three Montana novels—English Creek, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, and Ride with Me, Mariah Montana—form the so-called "McCaskill trilogy", covering the first centennial of Montana's statehood from 1889 to 1989. 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."
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