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Alfred Bertram "Bud" Guthrie Jr. (January 13, 1901 – April 26, 1991) was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian known for writing western stories. His novel The Way West won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and his screenplay for Shane (1953) was nominated for an Academy Award . Biography.
A.B. Guthrie, Jr. (born Jan. 13, 1901, Bedford, Ind., U.S.—died April 26, 1991, Choteau, Mont.) was an American novelist best known for his writing about the American West. Guthrie grew up in Montana and in 1923 earned a degree in journalism from the University of Montana.
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Complete order of A.B. Guthrie, Jr. books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
Apr 27, 1991 · A. B. Guthrie Jr., a Kentucky journalist who turned to fiction and won a Pulitizer Prize as one of the century's leading Western historical novelists, died yesterday at his home at Choteau,...
A.B. Guthrie Jr. has 50 books on Goodreads with 36088 ratings. A.B. Guthrie Jr.’s most popular book is The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tale...
Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr. was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction during 1950 for his novel The Way West. After working 22 years as a news reporter and editor for the Lexington Leader, Guthrie wrote his first novel.
The Big Sky is a 1947 Western novel by A. B. Guthrie Jr. It is the first of six novels in Guthrie's sequence dealing with the Oregon Trail and the development of Montana from 1830, the time of the mountain men, to "the cattle empire of the 1880s to the near present."
