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Margaret Jewett Bailey. Frederic Balch. Louis Albert Banks. Phillip Barron. Edwin Battistella. Margaret Bechard. Mona Bell. Howard W. Bergerson. Robert Briggs (poet)
Institutions. Oregon State University. Marcus Joel Borg[3] (March 11, 1942 – January 21, 2015) was an American New Testament scholar and theologian. [4] He was among the most widely known and influential voices in Liberal Christianity. Borg was a fellow of the Jesus Seminar and a major figure in historical Jesus scholarship. [5]
Background. Jane Kirkpatrick attended University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she initially majored in English before switching to social work, eventually earning a master's degree. She went on to work in this field for three decades. When visiting Oregon while looking for a job, she fell in love with the area and moved to Bend in 1974.
Sometimes a Great Notion (1964) Ken Elton Kesey (/ ˈkiːziː /; 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 in La Junta, Colorado, and grew up in Springfield, Oregon ...
Don Berry (author) Don George Berry (January 23, 1932 – February 20, 2001) [1] was an American author and artist best known for his trilogy of historical novels about early settlers in the Oregon Country. Described as one of "Oregon's best fiction writers of the post-World War II generation", [2] and a "Forgotten Beat", [3] Berry's second ...
Lesley's working-class background informs his writing, and is an integral part of his re-interpretation of the myths of the American West. Lesley is currently Senior Writer in Residence at Portland State University, and a faculty member in the Pacific University low-residency MFA program. [5] He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Kathryn ...
Tracy Daugherty is an American author. He is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Daugherty has written biographies of several important 20th century American writers. These include Hiding Man, about his ...
Kathleen Dean Moore (born 1947, Berea, Ohio) is a philosopher, writer, and environmental activist from Oregon State University. Her early creative nonfiction writing focused on the cultural and spiritual values of the natural world, especially shorelines and islands. Her more recent work is about the moral issues of climate change .