Walter Van Tilburg Clark

3 Aug 1909 – 10 Nov 1971

Because his three published novels had their locale in the state of Nevada, Walter van Tilburg Clark had come to be considered a Westerner. Actually he was born in East Orland, Maine on August 3, 1909. When he was eight years old, his father became president of the University of Nevada. Clark attended high school in Reno and received a B. A. and M. A. from the University of Nevada. After two years devoted to philosophy and literature at the University of Vermont, he accepted a post at Cazenovia, New York as a teacher and basketball coach. With the appearance of The Ox-Bow Incident in 1940, Walter Van Tilburg Clark came into immediate prominence as a writer. His novel was acclaimed by the critics and later was made into what has been acknowledged to be one of the finest motion pictures ever produced in Hollywood. The City of Trembling Leaves, published in 1945, further established Clark's literary reputation as spokesman for the new generation in the West. This novel was followed in 1949 by a Western legend, The Track of the Cat (which also became a movie), and in 1950 by a volume of short stories entitled The Watchful Gods. Then a professor of English at San Francisco State College, Mr. Clark lived with his wife in San Francisco.

Bibliography

Books

27 books

The Ox-Bow Incident

1940

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Fifty Best American Short Stories

1965

Martha Foley, Elsie Singmaster, Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, William March, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilbur Daniel Steele, William Saroyan, Thomas Wolfe, Tess Slesinger, Thomas Wolfe, Pietro Di Donato, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Robert M. Coates, Kay Boyle, Irwin Shaw, Nancy Hale, Paul Horgan, Jesse Stuart, James Thurber, Lionel Trilling, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, John Cheever, Jean Stafford, George P. Elliott, Hortense Calisher, Ray Bradbury, Tennessee Williams, James Agee, Bernard Malamud, James Agee, Augusta Wallace Lyons, Philip Roth, Shirley Jackson, Frank Butler, Lawrence Sargent Hall, James Baldwin, Tillie Olsen, George P. Garrett, John Updike, H. W. Blattner, John Stewart Carter, William Eastlake, Joyce Carol Oates, M. (Ed.) Foley, Martha (Editor) Foley

Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow

1952

Ray Bradbury, Robert M. Coates, Henry Kuttner, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Sidney B. Carroll, Ludwig Bemelmans, Shirley Jackson, Christine (Noble) Govan, Helen Eustis, Nigel Kneale, John Keir Cross, John Steinbeck, Josephine Johnson, John B. L. Goodwin, Wessel Hyatt Smitter, Roald Dahl, J C Furnas, Christopher Isherwood, William Sansom, John Cheever, Hortense Calisher, E. B. White, Jean Hrolda, Franz Kafka, Russell Maloney

Great American Short Stories

1957

Wallace Stegner, Mary Stegner, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Hamlin Garland, O. Henry, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Sherwood Anderson, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Conrad Aiken, Katherine Anne Porter, James Thurber, William March, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Paul Horgan, John O'Hara, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Eudora Welty, Hortense Calisher, Mary (editor) Stegner

Great American Short Stories [34 stories]

1977

Reader's Digest Association, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, Jack London, Susan Glaspell, Jesse Stuart, John O'Hara, O. Henry, Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Eudora Welty, Ray Bradbury, Damon Runyon, Marc Connelly, Edith Wharton, Bret Harte, Shirley Ann Grau, Heywood Broun, Henry James, Shirley Jackson, Stephen Crane, John Updike, Pearl S. Buck, Stephen Vincent Benét, Kay Boyle, Herman Melville, John Cheever, Ambrose Bierce, Readers Digest Editors, Richard Connell