Davis Country brings together a fascinating collection of the
distinctive writings of H. L. (Harold Lenoir) Davis, one of the
Northwest's premier writers and perhaps the most famous Oregon
writer of his generation. His influence on Northwest literature is
comparable to Mark Twain's on American literature. Born in southern
Oregon's Umpqua Valley in 1894, Davis spent his teen years in
Antelope and The Dalles working as a sheepherder, cattle puncher,
typesetter, and deputy sheriff. He began writing poetry during
World War I, but with the encouragement of H. L. Mencken, then
America's foremost literary critic, he switched to prose. He won
the prestigious Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine at age
twentyfive and is the only Oregonian ever to receive the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction, for his 1935 novel Honey in the Horn, which
Mencken called the best first novel ever published in America.
Davis's work displays a rich knowledge of Northwest history and
folklore. His intimate familiarity with the region's landscape-his
environmental sense, his feel for Northwest weather, trees, plants,
animals, for the varieties of Oregon rain, for the smell of forest
winds and high-desert heat-is unmatched and will enthrall a new
generation of readers. To read Davis today is to discover
incomparable natural settings, earthy backwoods characters, and a
laconic, colloquial narrative voice.
This anthology gathers a selection of Davis's finest essays and
stories, his best poems, and a sampling of his opinionated letters
on his life and writing craft, as well as excerpts from his most
famous novels, Honey in the Horn and Winds of Morning. An
introduction by editors Brian Booth and Glen Love, a brief
autobiography, and an afterword by Glen Love on Davis's final,
unfinished novel provide a better understanding of this truly
original Northwest voice.
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