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William Kittredge

Academy of Achievement

William Kittredge is a renowned novelist and master essayist of the American West. He grew up on his family's huge cattle ranch in Oregon and was a farmer until he was 35 years old. Weary of raising cattle, he gave in to a creative urge he knew none of his fellow Oregon ranchers would understand. Kittredge retired and made a clean break from ranching and enrolled in the University of …