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Bernard Augustine DeVoto (1897–1955),

American historian, essayist, columnist, teacher, editor, and reviewer, was a

lifelong champion of American Public lands and the conservation of public

resources as well as an outspoken defender of civil liberties. He was the

author of a series of Pulitzer-Prize-winning popular histories of the American West and for many years wrote The Easy

Chair, an influential column in Harper's Magazine. DeVoto

also wrote several well-regarded novels and during the 1950s served as a

speech-writer for Adlai Stevenson. His friend and biographer, Wallace Stegner described Devoto as "flawed,

brilliant, provocative, outrageous, ... often wrong, often spectacularly right,

always stimulating, sometimes infuriating, and never, never dull." He

was born on January 11, 1897, in Ogden, Utah. He attended the University of Utah for

one year, then transferred to Harvard University,

entering as a member of the class of 1918. He interrupted his education to

serve in the Army in World War I, then returned

to school and graduated in 1920. DeVoto began his career in 1922 as an English

instructor at Northwestern University.

He also began publishing articles and novels (under the pseudonyms "John

August" and "Cady Hewes"). In 1927 he resigned from

Northwestern. He and his wife Avis moved to Massachusetts in order to attempt to earn his living from

writing along with part-time instructing at Harvard University. (His

ambition of attaining a permanent position at Harvard was never realized.) A

series of articles he published in Harper's Magazine is

credited with bringing the influential work of Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto to wide audiences.[2] This led to a Easy Chair," which DeVoto wrote from 1935 until his death. DeVoto

was also an authority on Mark Twain and served

as a curator and editor for Twain's papers; this work culminated in several

publications, including the best-selling Letters From the Earth,

which appeared only in 1962. From 1936 to 1938 he worked in New York City, where

he was editor of the Saturday Review of

Literature, after which he returned to Massachusetts. It was

during his tenure as editor of the Saturday Review that DeVoto

produced one of his most controversial pieces, "Genius is Not

Enough," a scathing review of Thomas Wolfe's The Story of a Novel, in which the

novelist recounted his method of writing his autobiographical Of Time and the River,

as essentially submitting undigested first drafts to be transformed into

finished work by others.[3] According to DeVoto, Wolfe's

writing was "hacked and shaped and compressed into something resembling a

novel by [his editor] Mr. Perkins and the assembly-line at Scribners." Although in passing acknowledging

Wolfe's genius, DeVoto excoriated his lack of artistry, "Mr. Wolfe ... has

written some of the finest fiction in our day. But a great part of what he

writes is not fiction at all: it is only material with which he has struggled

but which has defeated him." "Until Mr. Wolfe develops more

craftsmanship, he will not be the important novelist he is now widely accepted

as being." DeVoto's essay was a decisive factor in Wolfe's subsequent

cutting ties with Scribners and editor Maxwell Perkins shortly before his death in 1938[5] and had a devastating effect on

Wolfe's posthumous literary reputation. The decade between 1943 and 53 saw the

completion of what John L. Thomas called Devoto's "magnificent trilogy of

the discovery, settling, and exploitation of the West":[6] The Year of Decision: 1846 (1943); Across the Wide Missouri (1947); The

Course of Empire (1952). Across the Wide Missouri was

the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for History (1948) and The Course of

Empire received National Book Award for

Nonfiction (1953). He also edited a selection of The

Journals of Lewis and Clark (1953). A book on the history, geography,

and ecology of the American West remained unfinished at his death in 1955; in

2001, an edited version was published as Western Paradox. As early

as 1938, when the Dies Committee was

investigating radical professors and a Soviet takeover of America, DeVoto

"mocked the conspiracy nuts" and yet was called

"fascist" by the Left. In the 1950s, he felt "a Communist or two

on any faculty constituted a far smaller danger than the procedures that would

be necessary to keep them off." He also opposed the outlawing of the Communist Party DeVoto spoke for many liberals" in disdaining "the

prominence ex-communists had gained in public life during the Cold War." He

argued that despite the new-found patriotism of conservative ex-Communists, their

commitments to absolutism and authoritarianism remained the same and continued

to threaten freedom. In April 1953, DeVoto's "Easy Chair" column

criticized "The Case of the Censorious Congressman" during SISS[ and HUAC[ hearings

of teachers. US Representative Carroll D. Kearns called DeVoto

"pro-Communist."  DeVoto married Avis DeVoto (1904-1989), a book reviewer, editor, and

avid cook. She became friends with Julia Child. Child had written a fan letter to Bernard DeVoto

regarding an article of his in Harper's Magazine; he

had said that he detested stainless steel knives, which she thought "100%

right". Avis' response began a long correspondence and friendship between

the two women during Child's work on her groundbreaking Mastering

the Art of French Cooking (1961). Child acknowledged Avis

as "wet nurse" and "mentor" to the undertaking. The

DeVotos' son Mark (b. 1940) is a music theorist, composer, and retired professor at Tufts University. Their older son, Gordon, a writer, died in

2009.[ DeVoto died on November 13, 1955 

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