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 Least Heat Moon, William (1939—) Summary
225 words, approx. 1 pages In 1978 William Trogdon (who writes as William Least Heat Moon) was an obscure English teacher whose job and marriage were falling to pieces around him. Seeking to cope with his feelings of isolation and alienation, Least Heat Moon set out on a... summary from source:
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William Least Heat-Moon, byname of William Trogdon (born 1940) is an American travel writer of English, Irish and Osage Nation... 
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William Least Heat-Moon is an American author. Sourced Blue Highways (1982) In a land of quince jelly, apple butter, apricot jam, blueberry preserves, pear conserves, and lemon marmalade, you always get grape jelly. Part One, Chapter 14 What is it in...
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 Publishers Weekly William Least Heat-Moon: Navigating America.(Column)
09/20/1999: 2,124 words, approx. 7 pages Baker is a frequent contributor to PW. TAKE A newly exposed interior wall, a confusion of plaster and brick, and ask a dozen people what patterns they see. Everyone knows you'd get a dozen different answers. But anyone familiar with William Least... summary from source:
Publishers Weekly Heat-Moon Shines.(William Least Heat-Moon)(Brief Article)
11/22/1999: 170 words, approx. 1 pages Bestselling author William Least Heat-Moon is back on the charts with River Horse, #12 on PW's list with 170,000 copies in print after three trips to press; Houghton Mifflin's first printing was 140,000. Reviews have been stellar, including a starred one in PW....
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 Critical Essay by John Updike
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["Blue Highways"] has been launched toward success by kind words [on the book's dust jacket] from Annie Dillard, Farley Mowat, and Robert Penn Warren. Mr. Warren not only has obliged with an ideal puff for the front of the jacket—"A masterpiece"—but has written the front-flap copy as well. It is he, and not the author, who tells us that William Least Heat Moon "set out to … write a book about America." Heat Moon's own explanation i... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Robert Mcdowell
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In Blue Highways: A Journey into America, William Least Heat Moon gives us an ambitious, aggressive, uneven tour of America's back roads and of his own self-awareness—or lack of it. Ultimately he neither succeeds nor fails. (p. 421) What better way to get a grip on one's life, to observe, learn, and start again? Familiar precursors, On the Road, Travels with Charley, encourage us to settle in for a valuable, vicarious journey into our country and ourselves. This is the principle strengt... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Jonathan Yardley
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With the arrival of the first hints of spring a few years back, a 38-year-old man named William Least Heat Moon, a.k.a. William Trogdon, decided to "chuck routine" and "live the real jeopardy of circumstance." His job teaching English at the University of Missouri had vanished and his marriage was in a state of terminal disrepair. A person of mixed blood—part Anglo, part Sioux—he decided to set out on an uncharted journey through America, a journey that he hoped wou...
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