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Hole in the Sky (1992), an autobiography, memoir, and family history, traces the life of William Kittredge. As a child, Kittredge grew up on his family's Warner Valley ranch in the southeastern Oregon desert country, and he felt deep connections to the land and to the cowboys who worked it. As he aged, life became more complicated, as the tensions and dissolutions within his family, new ideas about land use, and his own struggles to come to terms with himself led him away from the ranch to Montana and a new life as a writer.

William Kittredge, who teaches creative writing in Missoula, Montana, is the author of two collections of short stories and a book of essays and is editor of The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology.

Information on William Kittredge

http://range4u.com/stories/summer98/conversation_with_bill.htm

Theme Essay

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Book Reviews of Hole in the Sky

http://speakeasy.org/wfp/07/Books.html

http://library.northernlight.com/SL19970613430000380.html?cb=0&sc=0#doc

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