Davis, H.L.

Davis, H.L.

▪ American author
in full  Harold Lenoir Davis  
born Oct. 18, 1896, Yoncalla, Ore., U.S.
died Oct. 31, 1960, San Antonio, Texas

      American novelist and poet who wrote realistically about the West, rejecting the stereotype of the cowboy as hero.

      Davis worked as a cowboy, typesetter, and surveyor and in other jobs before being recognized for his writing. He first received recognition for his poems, written as imitations of the poetry of Detlev von Liliencron, a 19th-century German poet. Later Davis was encouraged by H.L. Mencken to try prose, and the results appeared in American Mercury. In 1932 Davis went to Mexico on a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he stayed there to write Honey in the Horn (1935), which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1936. This novel secured Davis' reputation as a novelist of the West whose slow-moving books explore the magic of landscape. Plot remains secondary to the quiet overall portrait of the era when the last pioneers flooded Oregon. Davis mistrusted heroics and instead wrote realistically of the problems facing frontier men and women. His later books include Beulah Land (1949) and The Distant Music (1957).

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