SEATTLE — Ivan Doig, an award-winning author whose books set in his native Montana made him one of the most respected writers of the American West, has died. He was 75.
Geoff Kloske, the publisher of Riverhead Books, said in a statement that Doig died Thursday of multiple myeloma at his Seattle home.
Doig was born in 1939 in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. The former ranch hand earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington.
He wrote 16 books, including the so-called McCaskill trilogy, three novels about a fictional Montana family covering the first 100 years of state history. His 1979 memoir, “This House of Sky,” was a finalist for the National Book Award. Doig won the Wallace Stegner Award in 2007.
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