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Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Nevada Writers Hall of Fame 1988
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Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909-1971) was born in East Orland, Maine, but grew up and went to college in Reno, where his father was President of the University of Nevada from 1918-1938. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Nevada in 1931 and 1932. Clark tried his hand at poetry before turning to prose. He was farming and teaching school in Cazenovia, New York when his first novel was published. With The Ox-Bow Incident (1940), he became a national literary figure at thirty. 20th Century Fox released a feature film of The Ox-Bow Incident in 1943, starring Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews. A condensed Armed Services Edition of The City of Trembling Leaves was produced during World War II, when over 123 million books were sent to U. S. troops. The Track of the Cat was first added to the Gold Star Book List by the Syracuse Public Library in 1949.
Clark taught at UNR and Virginia City High School and again at UNR, when he became writer-in-residence in 1962. He served as a trustee for the Virginia City Foundation Trust, which sought to preserve historic buildings linked to the Comstock Lode. In his later years, he wrote furiously but published little. Robert Laxalt arranged for Clark to come to Reno to edit the journals of nineteenth century Comstock editor and writer Alfred Doten, which were published posthumously in 1973. In 1998, Texas Christian University included Clark in their Literary Chronology of the American West (1510-1984).
Bibliography for Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Novels:
The City of Trembling Leaves. New York: Random House, 1945. (with an Italian edition) [Available: Getchell Library: PS 3505 .L376 C5; Italian ed.: Special Collections: PS 3505 .L376 C516 1948]
The Ox-Bow Incident. New York: Random
House, 1940.
(Listed in "Books Published Today" New York Times (Oct 7, 1940. p. 15), with editions in Czechoslovakian,
Danish, French, German, and Greek) [Available: Getchell Library: PS 3505 .L376 O98 1940]
Tim Hazard. London: William Kimber, 1951.
The Track of the Cat: A Novel. New York:
Random House, 1949. (with editions in Chinese, German, Japanese, and Spanish) [Available: Getchell Library:
PS 3505 .L376 T7 1949]
Short Stories & Poetry:
"The Anonymous" in The PL Book of Modern American Short Stories. edited by Nicholas Moore. London: Editions Poetry, 1945, pp. 244-266. [Available: Getchell Library: PS 659 .P55 1945]
Best College Verse, 1931. New York: Harper & Bros., 1931. (Preface by Christopher Morley)
"Between Joseph and God." in Writing. (1979) Vol. 1, no. 3&4. [Available: Getchell Library, Special Collections: PS 3537 .T316 Z84 1979] (short story)
"The Buck in the Hills." in Mid Country: Writings from the Heart of America. Lincoln, Neb.: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1945. [Available: Getchell Library: Special Collections]
Christmas Comes to Hjalsen. Reno, NV: self published, 1930.
"Chuangtse and the Prince of the Golden Age" in Western Review. (1949) Vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 87-97.
A Complete College Reader: Play, Story, Verse. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950. Vol. 2.
"Dawn, Washoe Valley; Big Dusk; Pyramid Lake" in Troubadour. (1932) Vol. 4, nos. 4 & 5, pp. 9 and 25. [Available: Getchell Library, Special Collections: PS 3505 .L376 D396 1932] (3 poems)
Fahrenheit 451: And Related Readings. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 1998.
"The Fish Who Could Close His Eyes" in Tomorrow. (1946) Vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 9-16.
"Hook" in The Atlantic Monthly. (1940) Vol. 166, no. 2, pp. 223-234. [Available: Getchell Library: AP 2 .A8 1940]
"Hook" in Great Western Short Stories. Palo Alto, CA: American West Pub. Co., 1967; pp. 423-443. [Available: Getchell Library, Special Collections: PZ 1 T1597Gr]
"The Indian Well" in Accent (1943) Vol. 3, no. 3, pp;. 131-143.
"The Indian Well" in Great Tales of the American West. New York: Modern Library, 1945, pp. 312-331. [Available: Getchell Library: PS 374 .W4 M3 1945]
"Letter to the Living" in The Nation (1942) Vol. 154, pp. 9-14. [Available: The Nation Digital Archive database]
Nevada Poetry, ca. 1922-1939. [Reno: University of Nevada, Reno Library - Special Collections].
Anthology of poetry by Nevadans with Nevada themes, ca. 1939, and unbound, printed poems.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1941-1945. New York: Doubleday, 1941-1945. [Available: Getchell Library, PS 642 O12]
"The Portable Phonograph," in Stegner, Wallace; Richard Scowcroft, Boris Ilyin, eds. The Writer's Art: A Collection of Short Stories. Boston: D. C. Heath, 1950; pp. 258-264. [Available: Getchell Library, Special Collections: PZ 1 .S82 Wr]
"Prestige" in Saturday Evening Post (1941) Vol. 213, no. 42, pp. 14-15. [Available: Getchell Library, AP 2 S2]
"The Pretender" in Atlantic Monthly (1942) Vol. 169, no. 4, pp. 482-491. [Available: Getchell Library, AP 2 A8]
"The Rapids" in Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature (1941) Vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 76-81. [Available: Getchell Library, AP 2 A243]
"The Rise and the Passing of Bar" in Virginia Quarterly Review (1943) Vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 80-96. [Available: Getchell Library, AS 30 V57]
Strange Hunting. Reno: University of Nevada, Reno Library - Black Rock Press, 1985. [Available: Getchell Library, Special Collections: PS 3505 .L376 S7 1985]
"Strange Hunting." South Dakota Review (autumn 1973) Vol. 11, no. 3), pp. 7-22. [Available: Getchell Library]
"The Sweet Promised Land of Nevada [song lyrics]."
Ten Women in Gale's House and Shorter Poems. Boston: Christopher Pub., 1932.
13 Great Stories. New York: Dell, 1955.
"To a Friend with New Shoes." in Winnowings from the Mill. (November 1934), Vol. 8, no. 1. [Available: Getchell Library, Special Collections: PS 3505 .L376 T634 1934] (poem)
"Trial at Arms" in Saturday Evening Post (1941) Vol. 213, no. 30, pp. 14-15, 38-44. [Available: Getchell Library, AP 2 S2]
The Watchful Gods and Other Stories. New York: Random House, 1950. (with a Portuguese edition) [Available: Getchell Library: PS 3505 L376 W3]
"The Wind and the Snow of Winter" in Fifty Best American Short Stories: 1915-1965. (Series: The Best American Short Stories) Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. pp. 375-386. [Available: Getchell Library, Special Collections: PS 648 .S5 B4]
"The Wind and the Snow of Winter" in Best of the Best American Short Stories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. pp. 69-81. [Available: Getchell Library, Special Collections: PS 3505 .L376 W563 1952]
"The Wind and the Snow of Winter" in Great Western Short Stories. Palo Alto, CA: American West Pub. Co., 1967; pp. 107-120. [Available: Getchell Library, Special Collections: PZ 1 T1597Gr]
"Why Don't You Look Where You're Going?" in Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature (1941) Vol.
1, no. 4, pp. 195-199. [Available: Getchell Library, AP 2 A243]
Adaptations:
Bezzerides, A. E. The Track of the Cat: Screenplay. 1954.
Dramatic Highlights from The Track of the Cat [sound recording]. Living Literature, 1969. (56 min.)
"Hook" [videotaped reading]. Voices: Great Moments in Literature. Reno, NV: MarkOne Video, 1993-94. (Feb. 9, 1994 Voices program, recorded at Nightingale Concert Hall, UNR, in 1993 and 2/9/94; Former Governor Mike O'Callaghan read "Hook") [Available: Getchell Library: Multimedia Center: V04686, vols. 1-2, plus "Voices" program]
The Ox-Bow Incident. (Series: Classics Illustrated, No. 125). New York: Gilberton, 1955. (comic book) [Available: Getchell Library, Special Collections: PS 3505 .L376 O98 1955]
The Ox-Bow Incident [motion picture]. 20th Century Fox, 1943. [Available: Getchell Library: Multimedia Center: V01087 & DVD 684]
The Portable Phonograph [motion picture]. Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corp., 1977.
(Short Story Showcase series) 16 mm. reel, 24 min. [Available: Getchell Library, Multimedia Center: Reel F012745]
Story into Film: Portable Phonograph [motion picture]. Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corp., 1977. (Documentary of adaptation process) videocassette, 10 min.
"The Tale of Hook the Hawk: Artist Dramatizes Bird for a Coming TV Show" in Life (1956) Vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 155-160. [Available: Getchell Library, AP 2 L547] Drawings by Hazard Durfee for an animated film. Selections from "Hook" short story.
"Track of the Cat" from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
Trotti, Lamar. The Ox-Bow Incident: Screenplay. [CA]: 20th Century Fox, 1942.
The Wild West: Stories [sound recording]. Novata, CA: Soundelux Audio Pub., 1993. (4 audio cassettes)
William A. Wellman's Track of the Cat [motion picture]. Burbank, CA: Warner Bros. Pictures, 1954; 1999 videocassette, 102 min. [Available: Getchell Library, Multimedia Center: V10772]
The Wind & The Snow of Winter [sound recording]. Petaluma, CA: Mind's Eye, 1993.
Nonfiction:
"The Ghost of an Apprehension" in Pacific Spectator. (1949) Vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 254-263. [Available: Getchell Library, Special Collections: PS 3505 .L376 Z656 1949]
Doten, Alfred. The Journals of Alfred Doten, 1849-1903. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1973. Edited by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. [Available: Getchell Library: F 841 .D6 and in Special Collections]
Guthrie, Jr., Alfred. B. The Big Sky. New York: Time-Life Books, 1964. Introduction by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. [Available: Great Basin College, Elko & Western NV Community College-Fallon: PS 3513 .U855 B54 1964b]
Guthrie, Jr., Alfred B. These Thousand Hills. in Montana (1957) Vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 48-50. Book review by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. [Available: Getchell Library, F 726 M74]
Robert Cole Caples: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1927-1963, Church Fine Arts Building,
University of Nevada, September 15-October 15, 1964. Essay by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. [Available: Getchell
Library: ND 237 .C25 N4]
A Study in Robinson Jeffers. VT: University of Vermont, 1934. Dissertation.
Sword Singer: The Tale of Tristram Retold, with an introductory essay concerning sources of the Tristram legend. Reno, NV: University of Nevada, Reno, 1931. Master of Arts thesis. [Available: Getchell Library: PE 3999 .C6375 1931]
"A Timely Coming - W R and R W" in Contact: San Francisco Collection of New Writing, Art and Ideas
(1959) Vol. 3, pp. 48-53. [Available: Getchell Library, AP 2 C65]
Biographical Sources & Critical Response:
Abrahms, Doug. "Nevada Statue Unveiled in D.C." Reno Gazette-Journal (March 10, 2005) p. A1, 4. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilms: N9]
"Add a New Dimension to Giving This Christmas [book advertisement]." Nevada State Journal (Nov. 26, 1975) [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilms: online via Newspaper Archive for University of Nevada affiliates, only]
Alt, John H. Walter Van Tilburg Clark: Humanity and Eternity.
Manhattan, Kansas: Kansas State University, 1977. (doctoral dissertation).
American National Biography. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999. [Available: Getchell Library: REF CT 213 A68 1999 and online via the Library web site]
"Around Town." Nevada State Journal (July 18, 1954), p. 2. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilm: N6 and via the Newspaper Archive (UNR NetID required)]
Authors Speak for Themselves: Autobiographical Sketches of 48 of the Leading Authors, Fall, 1950. New York: Herald Tribune, 1950.
Beers, Terry. "Walter Van Tilburg Clark's 'Strange Hunting.'" Jeffers Studies Archive. Vol. 3, no. 3a., 1999.
Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1991. [Available: Getchell Library: REF PN 41 .B4 1991]
"Biographical Note." Saturday Review of Literature. (June 4, 1949) Vol. 32, no. 9. [Available: Getchell Library: Z 1219 .S251949; Remote Storage: Acc#17B1-6 Request item ]
Boardman, Arthur. The Muted Horn: A Study of the Prose of Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Reno, NV: University of Nevada, Reno, 1953. (Master of Arts thesis).
"Book Review Is Feature of Meeting." Nevada State Journal (December 12, 1954) p. 18. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilm: N6 and via the Newspaper Archive (UNR NetID required)]
Brossard, C. Books "The Ox-Bow Incident." (review) in American Mercury (1951) Vol. 72, pp. 230-234. [Available: Getchell Library: AP2 .A37 1951]
Burke, W. J. and Howe, Will D. American Authors and Books: 1640 to the Present Day. 3rd rev. ed. New York: Crown, 1972. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference: REF Z 1224 .B87 1972; p. 122.]
Burkholder, Clyde. The Ox-Bow Incident: Notes. Lincoln, Nebraska: Cliffs Notes, 1974.
Carpenter, F. I. "West of Walter Van Tilburg Clark." in English Journal (Feb. 1952) Vol. 41, pp. 64-69. [Available: Getchell Library, Remote Storage: PE 1 .E5 1952] Request item.
Carr, Roberta. "A Rebuttal [Letters to the Editor]." Nevada State Journal ( June 9, 1953) p. 4. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilm: N6 and via the Newspaper Archive (UNR NetID required)]
Casewit, Curtis. "The Mountain States & Southwest." in Benedict, Stewart, ed. The Literary Guide to the United States. New York: Facts on File, 1981; pp. 159-192. [Available: Getchell Library: PS 141 .L5 1981]
Cheney, Roberta. "From a Trunk: 40 Years of Nevada History. Alfred Doten Diaries Preserve a Robust Age." Nevada State Journal (Sept. 16, 1962), p. 12. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilm: N6 and via the Newspaper Archive (UNR NetID required)]
Chiostri, Francesca. Translating Novels Into Films: Shifts of Meaning through Time (Walter Van Tilburg Clark, William Wellman, Translation, Film Accommodation), Univ. of Texas at Austin, 1996. (doctoral dissertation).
"The City of Trembling Leaves." (reviews) in:
Atlantic Monthly (July 1945), Vol. 176, p. 130.
Book Week (June 10, 1945), p. 3.
Booklist (June 1, 1945), Vol. 41, p. 286.
Boston Globe (May 31, 1945)
Bulletin from Virginia Kirkus' Bookshop Service (April 1, 1945), Vol. 13, p. 138.
Commonweal (June 29, 1945), Vol. 42, p. 267.
The Daily Independent (Monessen, PA) (July 20, 1945), p. 4.
Library Journal (May 15, 1945), Vol. 70, p. 488.
The Nation (June 23, 1945), Vol. 160, p. 702. [Available online: The Nation Digital Archive database
via the Library web site, UNR-affiliated users only]
New York Times (May 27, 1945), p. 4. [Available: Getchell Library: Ref Microfilm: N5; and via the Library
web site: New York Times, ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
New Yorker (May 26, 1945), Vol. 21, p. 75.
Saturday Review of Literature (June 2, 1945), Vol. 28, p. 13.
"Weekly Book Review" in New York Herald Tribune Books. (May 27, 1945), p. 4.
Wisconsin Library Bulletin (July 1945), Vol. 41, p. 84.
Yale Review (n.s. Autumn 1945), Vol. 35, p. 191.
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg. Papers, 1919-1982. University of Nevada, Reno Libraries, Special Collections & Archives. Collection Finding Aid
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg. Personal Interview. in New Yorker (1942) Vol. 18, no. 43, pp. 23-26. [Available: Getchell Library: Ref Microfilm S0097]
"Clark's Second Novel Has Reno Background." Reno Evening Gazette (May 31, 1945) p. 5. [Available online via Newspaper Archive for University of Nevada affiliates, only]
Cobb, Ty. The best of COBBWEBS. Reno: University of Nevada, Black Rock Press, 1997. [Available: Getchell Library: F 841 .C62 1997]
Cobb, Ty. "Who Was Alf Doten?" Nevada State Journal (April 20, 1975): p. 9. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilm: N6 and via the Newspaper Archive (UNR NetID required)]
Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. Detroit: GaleResearch, 1993. Vol. 63. [Available: Getchell Library: Ref Z 1224 .C62 and online via the Library web site's Gale Literature Resource Center database]
"Continental Harmony Premiers in Northern Nevada." Nevada Arts News (September 2000) Nevada Arts Council, p. 5.
Cyclopedia of World Authors. Rev. 3rd ed. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1997. [Available: Getchell Library: Ref PN 451 .C93 1997 vol. 5]
Cyclopedia of World Authors, II. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1989. [Available: Getchell Library: PN 451 .C93 1989 vol. 4]
Deane, Paul. American Elements in Walter Van tilburg Clark's 'The Track of the Cat.'" in Revue des Langues Vivantes (Feb. 1973) Vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 39-45.
Dempsey, David. "In and Out of Books." New York Times (Oct. 23, 1949), p. BR8. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilms: N5, Oct. 23, 1949; and online via the Proquest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times database]
Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. Supp. 9. [Available: Great Basin College, Elko: E 176 .D563 Suppl. 9 1971-75; & Western NV Community College-Carson City, Learning Resource Center: E 176 .D563 Suppl. 9]
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999. Vol. 206. [Available: Getchell Library: Ref PS 129 .D5 v. 206; also online via the Library web site's Literature Resource Center database]
Distinguished Nevadan Recipients, 1958-1969. University of Nevada System, Board of Regents. Reno, NV: University of Nevada, Reno Library - Archives. [Annual commencement award]
Diers, R. "Are Writers Made, Not Born?" in Saturday Review (Aug. 14, 1965) Vol. 48, pp. 52-53. [Available: Getchell Library, Remote Storage: Acc#17B1-7, v.48 Jul-Dec 1965 ] Request item.
"Editor of diaries was novelist Clark." Reno Evening Gazette (April 5, 1975), p. 9. [Available online via Newspaper Archive for University of Nevada affiliates, only]
"Educational TV Tonight." News Journal (Mansfield, Ohio) (July 6, 1967), p. 28. [Available online via Newspaper Archive for University of Nevada affiliates, only]
Encyclopedia of American Literature. New York: Continuum, 1999. [Available: Getchell Library: Ref PS 21 .E53 1999]
Encyclopedia of Frontier Literature. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997. [Available: Getchell Library: PS 169 .F7 S65 1997]
Engel, Leonard, ed. The Big Empty: Essays on Western Landscapes as Narrative. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. [Available: Getchell Library: NX 653 .W47 B54 1994]
Ehrlich, Eugene and Carruth, Gorton. The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. [Available: Getchell Library: PS 141 .E74 1982]
Etulain, Richard, comp. "Walter Van Tilburg Clark: A Bibliography." South Dakota Review. (Autumn 1965) Vol. 3, no. 1, p. 73-77. [Available: Getchell Library: 805 So726 1965 Vol. 3]
Etulain, Richard W. "Walter Van Tilburg Clark," in Western American Literature: A Bibliography of Interpretative Books and Articles. Vermillion, SD: Dakota Press, 1972. pp. 46-48. [Available: Getchell Library, Special Collections: Z 1225 E8]
"Famous Nevadans." Nevada Kids Page. State of Nevada: Department of Cultural Affairs.
Fiedler, Leslie A. The Watchful Gods." (review) in The Kenyon Review. (1951) [Available: Getchell Library: AS30 .K4 1951]
Gannett, Lewis. "The Ox-Bow Incident." (review) in Boston Evening Transcript (Oct. 9, 1940), p. 13.
"Governor Urging Aid for Comstock Restoration Plan." Nevada State Journal (July 2, 1953), p. 7. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilm: N6 and via the Newspaper Archive (UNR NetID required)]
Grover, Dorys C. "The Bus from Winnemucca." (short story) South Dakota Review (winter 1974-75), Vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 130-145. [Available: Getchell Library]
Hanna, Archibald. A Mirror for the Nation: An Annotated Bibliography of American Social Fiction, 1901-1950. New York: Garland, 1985. [Available: Getchell Library: Z 1231 .F4 H32 1985]
"Hilliard Bequest Will Fund Humanities Program." Nevada State Journal (June 22, 1972), p. 5. [Available online via Newspaper Archive for University of Nevada affiliates, only]
Hodgson, John W. Elements of the Arthurian Cycle in the Works of Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Florida Atlantic Univ., 1994 (Master of Arts thesis)
Houghton, Donald E. "The Failure of Speech in 'The Ox-Bow Incident'." in English Journal (Dec. 1970), Vol. 59, no. 9, pp. 1245-1251. [Available: Getchell Library, Remote Storage: PE1 .E5 1970] Request item.
Huntress, Keith. "The Ox-Bow Incident." (review) in Accent (1940) [Vol. 1, p. 127. [Available: Getchell Library: AP2 .A243 1940]
Interviews, 1982. Reno: University of Nevada, Reno Library - Special Collections. [2 cassette tapes]
Interviews of people who knew Walter Van Tilburg Clark when he taught school in Cazenoviua, New York.
Jackson, Joe. "Clark completed huge history before death." Reno Evening Gazette (Nov. 13, 1971) p. 16. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilm N9 1971 and online via Newspaper Archive (UNR NetID required)]
Kamm, Antony. Biographical Companion to Literature in English. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997.
Kehl, D. G. "Writing in the Apocalypse: Rhetorical Lessons from Walter Van Tilburg Clark." in College Composition and Communication (Feb. 1974) Vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 34-41. [Available: Getchell Library: PE1001 .C6 1974 and online via the Library web site's JSTOR e-journal collection]
Kich, Martin (Wright State University). "The Ox-Bow Incident" in The Literary Encyclopedia. 14 Jan. 2004. Literary Dictionary Company.
Kich, Martin. Western American Novelists. (Series: Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 1347) New York: Garland, 1995. [Available: Getchell Library: PS 271 .K53 1995 Vol. 1; and Great Basin College, Elko]
Kish, Jeanne M. Shane (Jack Shaefer) / The Ox-Bow Incident (Walter Van Tilburg Clark): Curriculum Unit. Rocky River, OH: Center for Learning, 1997. (TAP Instructional Materials series) [Available: Getchell Library: PN 70 .K57 1997]
Kleis, David J. The God Becoming: Sensation of the Nuclear in Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Univ. of Michigan, 1974. (doctoral dissertation)
Kuehl, John R., comp. "Walter Van Tilburg Clark: A Bibliography." Bulletin of Bibliography. (Sept.-Dec. 1956) Vol. 22, no. 1, p. 18-20. [Available: Getchell Library: Z 1007 B94 Vol. 22 1956/59]
Laird, Charlton Grant. Papers, 1927-1982. University of Nevada, Reno Libraries - Archives.
Includes correspondence with Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Laird, Charlton. Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Reno: Black Rock Press, 1972. (150 copies printed for the Walter Van Tilburg Clark Memorial Committee, University of Nevada, Reno, May 1972)
Laird, Charlton, ed. Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Critiques. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1983.
[Laxalt, Robert.] "Closeup." Reno Pace (October 1952), Vol. 4, no. 4; pp. 16-17. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilm S0415 1952 and Special Collections F 847 .W3 R46]
Lee, L. L. "Walter Van Tilburg Clark's Ambiguous American Dream." College English (Feb. 1965) Vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 382-387.
Lee, Lawrence L. Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Boise, Idaho: Boise State College, 1973. (Boise State College Western Writers Series, no. 8.) [Available: Getchell Library: PS 128 .B6 c. 2 no. 8 1973]
Lerude, Warren. "Nevada history lives in Alf Doten diaries." Reno Evening Gazette (April 5, 1975) p. 9. [Available online via Newspaper Archive for University of Nevada affiliates, only]
"Library Adds New Books." Nevada State Journal (October 20, 1940) p. 15. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilm: N6 and via the Newspaper Archive (UNR NetID required)]
Literary Reno: Writers and Places [video recording]. Reno, NV: Friends of Washoe County Library, 2004. (Readings by Neal Ferguson and Jim Santini, as part of Artown 2004's literary walking tour) [Available: Getchell Library, Multimedia Center: V12157]
"Little Theater Is Presenting Clark's 'Track of the Cat' As Dramatized by Geo. Bennett." Nevada State Journal (May 2, 1954) p. 9; and (May 16, 1954) p. 2 ["Held Over" ad]. [Available online via Newspaper Archive for University of Nevada affiliates, only]
Lyons, H. H. "Books." in Holiday (Oct. 1949), Vol. 6, pp. 17-18+. [Available: Washoe County Public Library, Downtown Reno Branch: Microfilm]
Malloy, Jean N. The World of Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Northwestern Univ., 1968. (doctoral dissertation)
Marsh, Fred T. The Ox-Bow Incident." (review) in New York Times. (Oct. 13, 1940) p. 6 and (Oct. 20, 1940) p. 2. [Available: Getchell Library: Ref Microfilm: N5; and via the Library web site: New York Times, ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
Melton, Rollan. 101 Nevada columns. Reno, NV: Nev. Humanities Committee, 2001. [Available: Getchell Library: F 845 .M452 2001 & in Special Collections]
"Memorial Meeting Set For Author." Nevada State Journal (December 10, 1971) p. 9. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilm: N6 and via the Newspaper Archive (UNR NetID required)]
Miller, Nolan. "The Watchful Gods." (review) in Antioch Review. (1951) [Available: Getchell Library: Ref Microfilm S0051 1951]
Milton, John R. "Conversations with Western American Novelists: Walter Van Tilburg Clark." South Dakota Review (Spring 1971), Vol. 9, no. 1; pp. 27-38. [Available: Getchell Library]
Milton, John R. The Novel of the American West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980. [Available: Getchell Library: PS 374 .W4 M49 1980]
Milton, John R. "The Western Novel -- Symposium." South Dakota Review (Autumn, 1964), Vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 17-19. [Available: Getchell Library]
Modern American Literature. 5th ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1999. [Available: Getchell Library: Ref PS 221 .M53 1999 v. 3]
Monroe, Albert Eason. "Eason Monroe - Safeguarding Civil Liberties," interview. (July 27, 1972). California Digital Library. Online Archive of California. Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive: Oral Histories.
Murphy, James P. J. Papers. [Available: Georgetown University Library, Special Collections Dept.: Box 1, Folder 66 ~ letters from Walter Van Tilburg Clark]
"Music Chairman At University Will Retire." Reno Evening Gazette (December 7, 1954) pp. 15-16. [Available online via Newspaper Archive for University of Nevada affiliates, only]
Nesbitt, John Dunville. Literary Convention in the Classic Western Novel. Univ. of California, Davis, 1980. (doctoral dissertation)
"Nevada Authors Meet the Public." Nevada State Journal (Oct. 6, 1954), p. 2. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilm: N6 and via the Newspaper Archive (UNR NetID required)]
New Encyclopedia of the American West. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1998. [Available: Getchell Library: Ref F 591 .R38 1998 & in Special Collections]
Obituaries in:
The Gettysburg Times (November 11, 1971), p. 20
Great Bend Daily Tribune (November 11, 1971), p. 7
Reno Evening Gazette (Nov. 11, 1971), pp. 1-2
Owens, Kenneth N. "The Real, Real West: Life on the Nevada Frontier Had Little Romance." The Sacramento Bee (April 6, 1975), p. P9. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilm N38 1975]
"The Ox-Bow Incident." (reviews) in:
Atlantic Bookshelf of the Atlantic Monthly. (Oct. 1940) [Available: Getchell Library: AP2 .A8 1940]
Booklist. (Nov. 15 1940)
Bookmark. (Jan. 1941)
New Republic (Dec. 2, 1940) [Available: Getchell Library: AP2 .N624 1940]
New York Herald Tribune Books (Oct. 6, 1940)
New Yorker (Oct. 12, 1940) Vol. 16, p. 100. [Available: Getchell Library: Ref Microfilm S0097]
Punch. (1941) [Available: Getchell Library: AP101 .P8 1941]
Saturday Review of Literature. (Oct. 26, 1940), Vol. 23, p. 6. [Available: Getchell Library: Z1219 .S25
1940]
Yale Review. (new series: Winter 1941), Vol. 30, p. x. [Available: Getchell Library: AP2 .Y2 1941]
Oxford Companion to American Literature. 6th ed. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995. [Available: Getchell Library: Ref PS 21 .H3 1995]
Pike, Deidre. "Meet the Press." Reno News and Review (March 17, 2005)
Post, Theodore H. Papers, 1919-1955. Reno: University of Nevada Libraries - Archives. Includes song lyrics by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.
Powers, J. F. "The City of Trembling Leaves" (review) in Accent. (1945) Vol. 5, p. 244. [Available: Getchell Library: AP2 .A243 1945]
Ray B. West Papers, 1920-1965. UT: Utah State Univ. Archives. Includes correspondence with Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Reference Guide to American Literature. 4th ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. [Available: Getchell Library: Ref PS 129 .R44 2000] also its 3rd ed., 1994.
"Remnants of storm: loads of limbs." Reno Evening Gazette (May 22, 1971) p. 1. [Available online via Newspaper Archive for University of Nevada affiliates, only]
"Reno Author Criticizes Censorship." Reno Evening Gazette (January 27, 1964) p. 11. [Available online via Newspaper Archive for University of Nevada affiliates, only]
Reynolds, Flora Elizabeth. "A Dukedom Large Enough": Forty Years in Northern California's Public and Academic Libraries (interview). (June 14, 1999). University of California, Berkeley. Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office. University History Series.
Rogers, Douglas G. "Man and Nature in Clark's Track of the Cat." South Dakota Review. Vol. 12, no. 4 (winter 1974-75), pp 49-55. [Available: Getchell Library]
Salomon, L. B. "The Ox-Bow Incident." (review) in Nation. (1940) [Available: Getchell Library: Ref Microfilm S0369 1940 & online via the Library web site's The Nation Digital Archive database]
Sangster, Allan. "The Watchful Gods." (review) in Canadian Forum. (1951) [Available: Getchell Library: AP5 .C125 1951]
Shepperson, Wilbur S. Mirage-Land: Images of Nevada. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1992. [Available: Getchell Library: F 841 .S54 1992; and at Western NV Community College, Carson City & Fallon; Great Basin College, Elko]
Social Protest Literature: An Encyclopedia of Works, Characters, Authors and Themes. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 1999. [Available: Getchell Library: Ref PN 56 .S65 N48 1999]
Stall, Bill. "Famed Nevada Author: Closeup." Reno Evening Gazette (January 25, 1964) p. 14. [Available online via Newspaper Archive for University of Nevada affiliates, only]
Stegner, W. "Walter Clark's Frontier." in The Atlantic Monthly (Aug. 1973), Vol. 232, pp. 94-98. [Available: Getchell Library: AP 2 .A8 1973]
Syracuse Public Library. Gold Star List of American Fiction. 1945-60, 1962-63. [Available: Getchell Library: Z 1231 F4 S9]
Thompson, R. "The Ox-Bow Incident (review)," in Books of the Times." New York Times. (Oct. 17, 1940), p. 23. [Available: Getchell Library: Ref Microfilm: N5; and via the Library web site: New York Times, ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
Thompson, R. "In and Out of Books." New York Times Book Review. (June 5, 1949), pp. 1, 9, 16. [Available: Getchell Library: AP 2 N658 1949 Jan-Je]
"The Track of the Cat [book advertisement]." Reno Evening Gazette (June 7, 1949), p. 13. [Available online via Newspaper Archive for University of Nevada affiliates, only]
"Track of the Cat" (reviews) in:
Booklist (May 15, 1949), Vol. 45, pp. 305, 335
Bookmark (Oct. 1949), Vol. 9, p. 5
Bulletin from Virginia Kirkus' Bookshop Service (Ap. 1, 1949), Vol. 17, p. 186
Catholic World (July 1949), Vol. 169, p. 317
Chicago Sun (June 1, 1949)
Christian Science Monitor (June 11, 1949), p. 18
Cleveland Open Shelf (July 1949), p. 16
Daily Herald (Chicago) (May 5, 1950), p. 23
Library Journal (May 15, 1949), Vol. 74, p. 817
New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review (June 5, 1949), p. 5
New York Times (June 5, 1949), pp. 1, 9, 16
New Yorker (June 4, 1949), Vol. 25, p. 84
Publishers Weekly (April 22, 1950), Vol. 157, p. 1815
Publishers Weekly (May 27, 1950), Vol. 157, p. 2284
San Francisco Chronicle (June 5, 1949), p. 20
Saturday Review of Literature (June 4, 1949), Vol. 32, p. 9
Time (June 6, 1949), Vol. 53, p. 40, 104
Wisconsin Library Bulletin (Nov. 1949), p. 8
Yale Review (Autumn 1949), Vol. 39, p. 190.
Track of the Cat (film reviews) in:
The Galveston News (November 28, 1954), p. 31.
Syracuse Herald-Journal (December 2, 1954), p. 62.
TV Guide Online Movie
Database
Twentieth-Century Western Writers. 2nd ed. Chicago and London : St. James Press, 1991. [Available: Getchell Library: Ref PS 271 .T84 1991]
"U. N. Magazine To Offer Prizes." Reno Evening Gazette (December 10, 1952) p. 11. [Available online via Newspaper Archive for University of Nevada affiliates, only]
"University lecture series to start Oct. 5." Reno Evening Gazette (September 29, 1972) p. 27. [Available online via Newspaper Archive for University of Nevada affiliates, only]
"Walter Van Tilburg Clark" in Lit Links: Poetry. Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark Papers, 1945-1946. CA: Univ. of California, Berkeley, Archives.
"Walter Clark Resigns Job At University in Protest." Nevada State Journal (June 5, 1953), p. 10. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilm: N6 and via the Newspaper Archive (UNR NetID required)]
"Walter Van Tilberg Clark Will Replace Laird as U. N. Lecturer in English Here." Nevada State Journal (May 16, 1952). [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilm: N6 and via the Newspaper Archive (UNR NetID required)]
"The Watchful Gods, and Other Stories." (reviews) in:
Booklist (Oct. 15, 1950), Vol. 47, p. 75
Catholic World (Dec. 1950), Vol. 172, p. 234
Chicago Sunday Tribune (Oct. 8, 1950), p. 6
Bulletin from Virginia Kirkus' Bookshop Service (July 15, 1950), Vol. 18, p. 399
Library Journal (Aug. 1950), Vol. 75, p. 1290
The Nation (Oct. 7, 1950), Vol. 171, p. 317
New York Herald Tribune Book Review (Nov. 19, 1950), p. 18
New Republic (Dec. 25, 1950), Vol. 123, p. 20
New York Times (Sept. 24, 1950), p. 9
New Yorker (Oct. 21, 1950), Vol. 26, p. 137
San Francisco Chronicle (Oct. 18, 1950), p. 20
Saturday Review of Literature (Sept. 30, 1950), Vol. 33, p. 13-17
Wisconsin Library Bulletin (Nov. 1950), Vol. 46, p. 17.
Westbrook, Max. Walter Van Tilburg Clark. New York: Twayne Pub., 1969. Twayne's United States Authors Series, no. 155. [Available: Getchell Library: PS 3505 .L376 Z95]
White, Connie Lynn Richards. Nature in Selected Works of Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Harvey Fergusson and Frank Waters. Kansas State Univ., 1984. (doctoral dissertation)
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick: The Life & Times of William A. Wellman (videotape). New York : Kino on Video, 1996. (Documentary of the director of "The Ox-Bow Incident")
"Will Be Big Event At V.C." Nevada State Journal (Sept. 11, 1949) p. 5. [Available: Getchell Library, Main Reference Microfilm: N6 and via the Newspaper Archive (UNR NetID required)]
World Almanac Biographical Dictionary. World Almanac Books, 1990.
World Authors, 1900-1950. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1996. [Available: Getchell Library: PN 451 .W674 1996]
Please direct questions about this bibliography to Betty Glass.
Please direct questions to Millie Mitchell
Director of Development, University Libraries
University of Nevada, RenoUpdated 29 March 2008