Walter Van Tilburg Clark

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Walter Van Tilburg Clark (born August 3, 1909 in East Orland , Maine , † November 10, 1971 in Reno , Nevada ) was an American writer. In the professional world, Clark's ability to accurately draw different characters and conflict situations is emphasized. His best-known novel The Ox-Bow-Incident is considered the first modern western freed from previous clichés and was filmed in 1942 with Henry Fonda ( Ritt zum Ox-Bow ).

life and work

The son of the President of the University of Nevada, Reno attends college there and studies English. He teaches and publishes first poems. In 1933 he married Barbara Frances Morse. From 1936 to 1945 he taught English and sports at the grammar school in Cazenovia (New York). With his novel debut The Ox-Bow Incident (1940) he achieved considerable success. Some of Clark's short stories will soon serve as school examples. After the Second World War he published very little; perhaps he has reached the limits of his spontaneity. He throws entire manuscripts of novels into the fire. He dedicates himself primarily to educational and scientific activities: initially professor for creative writing at the University of Montana - Missoula , Clark is from 1962 writer-in-residence (a kind of town clerk) at the University of Reno, where he worked (until his death from cancer in 1971 ) mainly deals with the estate of the editor and writer Alfred Doten . With Robert Laxalt , Clark is the first writer to be inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame (1988) .

Works

  • The Ox-Bow Incident. Novel. Random House, New York 1940.
    • German: Short process, Sheriff. Linz 1948, ride to the Ox-Bow. Munich 1966.
  • The City of Trembling Leafes. Roman, New York 1945.
  • Track of the Cat. Novel. New York 1949.
    • English: The black panther. Vienna 1951.
  • The Watchful Gods and Other Stories. New York 1950

Clark also published several volumes of poetry in the 1930s.

Film adaptations

literature

  • James R. Lindroth: Clark's The Ox-Bow Incident: A Critical Commentary. New York 1966.
  • Max Westbrook: Walter van Tilburg Clark. New York 1969.
  • LL Lee: Walter van Tilburg Clark. Boise, USA 1973.
  • Charlton Laird (Ed.): Walter van Tilburg Clark: Critiques. Reno 1983 (with texts by and about Clark).
  • Jackson J. Benson: The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Reno 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Michael Engelmann 2009 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 22, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nevadamagazine.com
  2. ↑ In: Kindlers New Literature Lexicon. Edition Munich 1988, it is said that the novel owes its fame to Clark's ability to " depict a timeless subject in the context of a conventional Western storyline." It is about aggressiveness, arbitrariness (in this case, lynching ) and opportunism. Other observers saw Clark's "Western" as a timely warning of fascist tendencies. Incidentally, the literary lexicon manages to deal with linguistic, stylistic and dramaturgical aspects in its article about this novel with not a comma.
  3. ↑ Michael Engelmann 2009 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 22, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nevadamagazine.com
  4. ↑ Also on this Michael Engelmann 2009 (based on Jackson J. Benson 2004)
  5. ^ Posthumous publication: The Journals of Alfred Doten, 1849–1903. three volumes, Reno 1973.
  6. ↑ Nevada ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 22, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / knowledgecenter.unr.edu
  7. ↑ The novel was filmed in the USA in 1943 by William A. Wellman (with Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn , German title Ritt zum Ox-Bow ) and again in 1955 by Gerd Oswald .
  8. ↑ According to Brockhaus Encyclopedia. (19th edition, Volume 4 of 1987) the West and the hunt function here as symbols of alienation and disintegration. Filmed by William A. Wellman in 1954, with Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright , see English Wikipedia , accessed April 22, 2011.
  9. ↑ For his short story The Wind and the Snow of Winter. Clark receives the O. Henry Prize in 1945 .
personal data
SURNAME Clark, Walter van Tilburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH East Orland , Maine
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1971
Place of death Reno , Nevada