In 1950, a collection of short stories, The Watchful Gods and Other Stories, was released. Over the next decade, Clark published two more novels: The City of Trembling Leaves (1945) and The Track of the Cat (1949). The novel was well-received, gave Clark literary acclaim that was unusual for a writer of Westerns, and in 1943 was adapted into a movie starring Henry Fonda and Harry Morgan. The novel's themes include an examination of frontier law and order, as well as culpability.
After the travelers are hanged, the lynch mob finds that they killed the wrong suspects. The novel is a story about a lynch mob mistaking three innocent travelers for cattle rustlers suspected of murder. In 1933 Clark married Barbara Frances Morse and moved to Cazenovia, New York, where he taught high school English and began his fiction-writing career.Ĭlark's first published novel, The Ox-Bow Incident (1940), was successful and is often considered to be the first modern Western, without the usual clichés and formulaic plots of the genre. As a writer, Clark taught himself to use the familiar materials of the western saga to explore the human psyche and to raise deep philosophical issues.īorn in East Orland, Maine, Clark grew up, graduated from Reno High School in 1926 and went to college at the University of Nevada, where his father, Walter Ernest Clark, was president of the University of Nevada. Two of Clark's novels, The Ox-Bow Incident and The Track of the Cat, were made into films. He ranks as one of Nevada's most distinguished literary figures of the 20th century, and was the first inductee into the 'Nevada Writers Hall of Fame' in 1988, together with Robert Laxalt, Clark's mentee and Nevada's other heralded twentieth century author.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark (Aug– November 10, 1971) was an American novelist, short story writer, and educator. Robert Morse (son), Barbara Anne (daughter) Henry Prize, Nevada Writer's Hall of Fameīarbara Frances Morse (b. The Ox-Bow Incident, The Watchful Gods and Other Stories
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