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2008 Notable Wisconsin
Authors
Edward Harris Heth
Larry Watson
Edward Harris Heth (1909-1963)
Author
Edward Harris Heth was born in Milwaukee in 1909,
attended the University of Wisconsin, and lived much
of his adult life in Wales, Wisconsin.
He lived in New York and worked in advertising, but
returned to the Welsh Hills where he lived with his
partner, Bill Chancey. He wrote seven novels, some of
which were semi-autobiographical, as well as a popular
cookbook, The Wonderful World of Cooking. His novel,
Any Number Can Play, based on his gambling father,
was turned into a movie starring Clark Gable. His book,
My Life on Earth, is also semi-autobiographical.
Heth passed away at his home in Wales on April 26,
1963.
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Larry Watson (1947 - )
Author
Larry Watson was born in 1947 in North Dakota, where
he grew up and married his high school sweetheart.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree and Master
of Arts degree from the University of North Dakota,
his Ph.D. from the creative writing program at the
University of Utah, and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Ripon College in Wisconsin. Watson has
also received grants and fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Arts (1987, 2004) and the Wisconsin
Arts Board.
Watson is the author of the novels In a Dark Time,
Montana 1948, White Crosses, Laura, Orchard, and
Sundown, Yellow Moon; the fiction collection Justice;
and the poetry chapbook Leaving Dakota. Watson’s
fiction has been published in foreign editions and
has received prizes and awards from Critics’ Choice,
Friends of American Writers, Milkweed Press, Mountain
and Plains Booksellers Association, New York Public
Library, and the Wisconsin Library Association.
Montana 1948 was nominated for the first IMPAC
Dublin international literary prize. He has twice won the
Wisconsin Library Association’s Banta Award, in 1994
for Montana 1948 and in 2004 for Orchard.
Watson has published short stories and poems in
Gettysburg Review, New England Review, North
American Review, Mississippi Review, and other
journals and quarterlies. His essays and book reviews
have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington
Post, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Milwaukee Journal-
Sentinel, and other periodicals. His work has also been
anthologized in Essays for Contemporary Culture,
Imagining Home, Off the Beaten Path, Baseball and
the Game of Life, The Most Wonderful Books, These
United States and Writing America.
Watson taught writing and literature at the University
of Wisconsin-Stevens Point for 25 years. He joined the
faculty at Marquette University in 2003 as a Visiting
Professor. He has also taught and participated in writers
conferences in Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North
Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Wisconsin, St. Malo and Caen,
France.
Watson and his wife, Susan, live in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. They have two daughters, Elly and Amy,
and two grandchildren, Theodore and Abigail.
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