Richard Scowcroft (June 26, 1916 – October 8, 2001) was an American writer and teacher of writers long associated with Stanford University, where he co-founded the creative-writing program with, and ultimately succeeded,

Wallace Stegner Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Boo ...

as director. Among the writers taught were

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Wendell Berry Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of ...

, Robert Stone,

Larry McMurtry Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas.

, Karen Rosenbaum,

Ed McClanahan Edward Poage McClanahan (October 5, 1932 – November 27, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and professor. Biography McClanahan was born in Brooksville, Kentucky on October 5, 1932, to Edward Leroy and Jessie (Poage) McClanahan. He attend ...

Ken Kesey Ken Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. Kesey was born ...

Scott Turow Scott Frederick Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American author and lawyer. Turow has written 13 fiction and three nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. Turow’s novels ...

and

Chuck Kinder Charles Alfonso Kinder II (October 8, 1946 – May 3, 2019) was an American novelist. Biography Kinder was born October 8 in Montgomery, West Virginia to Charles Alfonso and Eileen Reba (Parsons) Kinder. He was educated at West Virginia Universit ...

.Genzlinger, Neil
"Chuck Kinder, Novelist Who Inspired ‘Wonder Boys,’ Dies at 76"
New York Times, May 9, 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-09. Scowcroft's work frequently featured

themes Theme or themes may refer to: * Theme (arts), the unifying subject or idea of the type of visual work * Theme (Byzantine district), an administrative district in the Byzantine Empire governed by a Strategos * Theme (computing), a custom graphical ...

based in his

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upbringing.

Novels

*''Children of the Covenant'' (1945) *''First Family'' (1950) *''A View of the Bay'' (1955) *''Wherever She Goes'' (1966) *''The Ordeal of Dudley Dean'' (1969) *''Back to Fire Mountain'' (1973)

References

Sources

Memorial Resolution: Richard P. Scowcroft
by John Sanford
Richard Scowcroft, 85; Novelist Headed Writing Program at Stanford
by Myrna Oliver

External links

Richard Scowcroft Papers
1916 births American Latter Day Saint writers 20th-century American novelists Novelists from Utah Writers from California Stanford University faculty American male novelists 2001 deaths Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area 20th-century American male writers Latter Day Saints from California 20th-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers {{US-novelist-1910s-stub