Richard Scowcroft
American novelist
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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 as director.[1] Among the writers taught were Tillie Olsen, Wendell Berry, Robert Stone, Larry McMurtry, Karen Rosenbaum, Ed McClanahan, Ken Kesey,[2] Scott Turow[3] and Chuck Kinder.[4] Scowcroft's work frequently featured themes based in his Mormon 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)
