Doig’s best known novels include English Creek (1984), Dancing at the Rascal Fair (1987), and Ride With Me, Mariah Montana (1990)-the so-called Montana Trilogy. While being identified with his native state, Doig is also viewed as a possible successor to Wallace Stegner as the leading light among Western American writers. Yet readers almost never refer to him as a Washington or Puget Sound or Seattle writer (although those seeking interviews on “Pacific Northwest literature” do not hesitate to throw him into the mix, his Montana roots notwithstanding). Yet virtually all of Doig’s most enthusiastic fans know him as a Montana writer, in part because the majority of his books are set in that state and in part because he grew up there and memorialized his childhood in the widely popular This House of Sky (1978). from the University of Washington with a dissertation about a prominent attorney and businessman in nineteenth-century Seattle. Ivan Doig illustrates one of the reasons why categorizing writers according to place can be so troublesome. Since the mid-1960s he has resided in Seattle and written a good deal about the Northwest Coast area. Northwest Schools of Literature: Commentary 10.
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