Early life,Personal life,Edited volumes

Early life 

Doig was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana to a family of homesteaders and ranch hands. After the death of his mother, Berneta, on his sixth birthday, he was raised by his father Charles "Charlie" Doig and his grandmother Elizabeth "Bessie" Ringer. After several stints on ranches, they moved to Dupuyer, Montana in the north to herd sheep close to the Rocky Mountain Front.

After his graduation from Valier High School, Doig attended Northwestern University, where he received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in journalism. He later earned a Ph.D. in American history at theUniversity of Washington, writing his dissertation on John J. McGilvra (1827-1903).

Career 

Before Doig became a novelist, he wrote for newspapers and magazines as a free-lancer and worked for theUnited States Forest Service.

The western landscape and people play an important role in Doig's fiction, with much of it set in the Montanacountry of his youth. His major theme is family life in the past, mixing personal memory and regional history. The first three Montana novels—English Creek, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, and Ride with Me, Mariah Montana, form the "McCaskill trilogy", covering the first century of Montana's statehood from 1889 to 1989.

Personal life 

He lived with his wife Carol Doig, née Muller, a university professor of English, in Seattle, Washington until his death from multiple myeloma in 2015.^[1]

Works 

Novels 

• The Sea Runners (1982)
• English Creek (1984)
• Dancing at the Rascal Fair (1987)
• Ride with Me, Mariah Montana (1990)
• Bucking the Sun (1996)
• Mountain Time (1999)
• Prairie Nocturne (2003)
• The Whistling Season (2006)
• The Eleventh Man (2008)
• Work Song (2010)
• The Bartender's Tale (2012)
• Sweet Thunder (2013)
• Last Bus to Wisdom (2015)

Nonfiction 

• News: A Consumer's Guide (1972) - a media textbook coauthored by Carol Doig
• This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind (1979) - memoirs based on the author's life with his father and grandmother (nominated for National Book Award)
• Heart Earth (1993) - memoirs based on his mother's letters to her brother Wally
• Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America (1980) - an essayistic dialog with James G. Swan

Edited volumes 

• Streets We Have Come Down: Literature of the City (1975)
• Utopian America: Dreams and Realities (1976)
• Nina Companeez (26 August 1937 – 9 April 2015) was a Frenchscreenwriter and film director.^[1] Nina Companeez was the younger daughter of Russian Jewish emigré screenwriter Jacques Companéez and younger sister of contralto Irène Companeez. She was the mother of actress Valentine Varela.
  Companeez was a long time collaborator of Michel Deville.^[2] She wrote for 29 films and television shows. In April 2015, she died at the age of 77
• Svetlana Velmar-Janković (Cyrillic: Светлана Велмар-Јанковић, Serbian pronunciation: [sʋɛ̌tlana ʋɛ̂lmaːr jaːnkɔʋitɕ]; 29 June 1933 – 9 April 2014) was a Serbian novelist, essayist and chronicler of Belgrade.^[1] She was born and educated in Belgrade, in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia where she continued to live with her mother and sister after her father Vladimir Velmar-Janković went to exile in Spain at the end of the Second World War.
  In her second year at university, she became a journalist. In 1959 she became an editor of contemporary Yugoslav prose and essay compositions at the Prosveta Publishing House. She worked here for many years, becoming, in 1971, a member of the editorial board.
  In the meantime she established the Baština Library and, in 1989, became an independent writer.
  Her publications include the novels: Ožiljak (1956, second revised edition 1999), Lagum (1990), Bezdno(1995) and Nigdina (2000); an autobiographical novel, Prozraci (2003); two collections of essays Savremenici(1968) and Ukletnici (1993); three collections of short stories Dorćol (1981), Vračar (1994) and Glasovi (1997); the play Knez Mihailo (1994) and book of plays Žezlo (2001); the children’s book Knjiga za Marka (1998); and the prayer book Svetilnik (1998).
  She has received numerous awards and prizes for her work, including the Isidora Sekulić, Ivo Andrić, Meša Selimović, Đorđe Jovanović, Borisav Stanković and Pera Todorović prizes. She won the National Library of Serbia Award for the most read book of 1992 and the NIN Prize for novel of the year for Bezdno (1995). For Knjiga za Marka (1998) she won the Neven Prize and Prize of Politikin zabavnik. She was awarded the 6 April Prize for her life’s work about Belgrade. Other awards include the Mišićev dukat, Ramonda Serbica award, and the Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša Prize.
  Her work is currently published by the Stubovi Kulture Publishing House, Belgrade. Her work has been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Bulgarian, Korean and Hungarian
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