The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography Of Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Acknowledgments

« acknowledgments » I       who gave of their time to talk or write to me about Walter Clark—his relatives, colleagues, students, and friends. I have listed and thanked them individually as sources in my documentation at the end of the book. The person above all to whom I am grateful is Walter Clark’s son, Robert Morse Clark, who gave his permission for this biography and who provided much invaluable information and over a period of years was always willing to help. My thanks also to other members of the family, Barbara Clark Salmon, David Chism, and George E. Lowe. Several libraries provided help. I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the librarians at the Special Collections department at the Mackay Library, University of Nevada, Reno. Most of Walter Clark’s letters and manuscripts are deposited there, and the librarians at Special Collections, Susan Searcy and Jacquelyn K. Sundstrand, spent much time guiding me through the extensive collection. I was able to consult other Clark letters through the › xvii ‹ 00-unv002.fm.4 6/29/04 5:56 PM Page xvii generosity of the libraries at Utah State University, Columbia University, and Brown University. Special Collections at the Library of the University of Vermont provided Clark’s M.A. thesis on Robinson Jeƒers. Over several years Katherine Shumate provided research help, digging up materials that proved invaluable during the course of writing the manuscript. Fiona Becker took on the di~cult job of transcribing both my interview tapes and typing many of Clark’s handwrittenletters.JamesH.Maguiredeservesmythanksforgetting me started on the biography and providing some preliminary materials to get me on track. And during the writing of the biography , I depended a great deal on pioneering discussions of Clark, his life and work, by Charlton Laird, Robert Gorrell, and Max Westbrook. acknowledgments › xviii ‹ 00-unv002.fm.4 6/29/04 5:56 PM Page xviii « the ox-bow man » 00-unv002.fm.4 6/29/04 5:56 PM Page xix 00-unv002.fm.4 6/29/04 5:56 PM Page xx ...