Welcome to The Write Question, a program that explores the world of writing and publishing in the western United States. Our guest today is William Kittredge from Missoula, Montana.

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Kittredge grew up on a cattle ranch in southeast Oregon and farmed there until he was 33, after which he studied at the University of Iowa. He taught Creative Writing at the University of Montana for 29 years and retired as Regents Professor of English and Creative Writing.

Kittredge has held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, received two writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Awards for Excellence. He was winner of the Montana Governor's Award for the Arts, co-winner of the Montana Committee for the Humanities Award for Humanist of the Year, and winner of the PEN West Award for non-fiction book of the year.

Books by William Kittredge:

The Willow Field

The Best Short Stories Of William Kittredge

The Nature of Generosity

Owning It All

The Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essays

We Are Not In This Together

Taking Care: Thoughts On Storytelling and Belief

Hole in the Sky: A Memoir

Recently published books by regional writers includes, Eight Women, Two Model Ts and the American West, by Joanne Wilke from Bozeman, and Lodestar, by Sarie MacKay from Red Lodge, Montana.

In the poetry category: Montana, Too: A Book of Montana History in Story Poems, by Bonnie Buckley Maldonado from Silver City, New Mexico.

For more information about new books, contact your favorite bookseller or library.

And here’s a comment from Ann Richards: “I have a soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.”

The Write Question is produced by Chérie Newman.

Executive producer, Michael Marsolek.

Special thanks to Barbara Theroux, Prageeta Sharma, Renée McGrath, and Kim Anderson.

This program is supported in part by The Greater Montana Foundation—encouraging communication on issues, trends, and values of importance to Montanans. And by Humanities Montana, enriching intellectual, cultural, and civic life for all Montanans.

This program included music by Michael Blessing, Christine Dickinson, Matthew Lyon, Amy Martin, and Springhill.

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Guests on the The Write Question are writers, publishers, and illustrators living, or working for an extended period of time, in the western United States. The Write Question is a production of Montana Public Radio.