Thomas McGuane

Thomas McGuane has been selected as the Emeritus Award winner, which honors a distinguished writer for a body of work.

Since his first book, McGuane has been hailed by critics and readers for his distinctive voice and command of language, with comparisons to literary giants like Hemingway and Faulkner.  The Bushwhacked Piano won the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and Ninety-two in the Shade was nominated for a National Book Award. He was the recipient of the Montana Centennial Award for LIterature in 1989. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2010.

His works include: The Sporting Club (1969, novel), The Bushwacked Piano (1971, novel), Ninety-Two in the Shade (1973, novel), Panama (1978,novel), Nobody's Angel (1981, novel), An Outside Chance: Classic and New Essays on Sport (1981, nonfiction), Something to Be Desired (1985, novel), To Skin a Cat (1986, short stories), Keep the Change (1989, novel), Nothing but Blue Skies (1992, novel), Best American Sports Writing, 1992 (1993, nonfiction), Live Water (1996, nonfiction), Some Horses (1999, nonfiction), Upstream: Fly Fishing in the American Northwest (1999, nonfiction), The Longest Silence (2000, nonfiction), The Cadence of Grass (2002, novel), Horses (2005, nonfiction), Gallatin Canyon (2006, short stories), Driving on the Rim (2010, novel)

In addition to his fiction, nonfiction and short stories, McGuane has written for magazines and motion pictures. He wrote the original screeplays for Rancho Deluxe (1973), and The Missouri Breaks (1975). He adapted his own novel and directed the film version of Ninety-Two in the Shade (1975). McGuane co-wrote screenplays for Tom Horn (1980) and Cold Feet (1989).

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Previous Emeritus Award Winners
2011 - Larry Woiwode
2010 - Margaret Coel
2009 - Louise Erdrich
2008 - Gary Ferguson
2007 - Larry Watson