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Richard Scowcroft

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Anne Kendall Scowcroft
R. Mark Scowcroft of Washington, D.C.; Roger K. Scowcroft of Salt Lake City; and Philip H. Scowcroft of Middletown, Conn
1916
Ogden, Utah
Oct. 8, 2001
Bachelor\'s degree, University of Utah, 1937 Masters (1941) and PhD (1946), Harvard University
In 1947 he was appointed by Wallace Stegner to Stanford University where he was co-founder of the Stanford writing program and co-editor of the Stanford short stories. This program produced and published early work by the likes of Wendell Berry, Robert Stone, Larry McMurty, Ed McClanhan, Ken Kesey and many others. He would spend the remainder of his career at Stanford. Scowcroft helped develop the Creative Writing Program at Stanford, where he served as associate director and then director after his friend and colleague Wallace Stegner retired in 1971. Scowcroft also served as chair of the English Department from 1976 to 1978.
Author Wallace Stegner said that Scowcroft, \"besides being bright, animated, amusing and interested in everything that moved, he possessed social feelers of the most acute sensibility...He is a preeminently social animal, so genuinely interested in people that he becomes himself irresistibly attractive.\"
Author, Editor

18 Works by Richard Scowcroft

Title Role Year Genre
The Ordeal of Dudley Dean Author 1969 Novel
Children of the Covenant Author 1945 Novel
First Family Author 1950 Novel
A View of the Bay Author 1955 Novel
Back to Fire Mountain Author 1973 Novel
Wherever She Goes Author 1966 Novel
Twenty Years of Standford Short Stories Editor 1966 Short Story
The Writer's Art Editor 1972 Short Story
Stanford Short Stories, 1960 Editor 1960 Short Story
Stanford Short Stories, 1968 Editor 1968 Short Story
Stanford Short Stories, 1962 Editor 1962 Short Story
Stanford Short Stories, 1958 Editor 1958 Short Story
Stanford Short Stories Editor
Stanford Short Stories, 1964 Editor 1964 Short Story
Stanford Short Stories, 1951 Editor 1951 Short Story
Stanford Short Stories, 1956 Editor 1956 Short Story
Stanford Short Stories, [1952] Editor 1952 Short Story
Stanford Short Stories, 1957 Editor 1957 Short Story
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