Bernard DeVoto
Bernard Augustine DeVoto (January 11, 1897 – November 13, 1955) was an American historian, conservationist, essayist, columnist, teacher, editor, and reviewer. 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."
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