![]() ![]() Published in 1960 when don berry was 27, trask is often mentioned in the same breath as ken kesey's sometimes a great notion as the finest oregon novel ever written. Berry's novels, and Scoundrels, were republished between 20 by Oregon State University Press. 1930) and Philip Whalen (1923-2002), an association that began at Reed College in Portland in the 1950s. Journalist Jeff Baker has called him "Reed's Forgotten Beat" for his work, his practice of Eastern metaphysics, and his longtime friendship with poets Gary Snyder (b. With them, he helped create a new Northwest fiction style. Berry developed his writing skills with science fiction stories in the 1950s, but it is his trilogy of novels and his non-fiction history A Majority of Scoundrels (all written and published between 19) for which he is best remembered. He ventured into educational software in the pioneering days of computers, authored scripts for adventure films, wrote commissioned books, and built a website called Berryworks for his own unpublished fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and philosophy. Primarily known for his historical novels of early Oregon country - Trask, Moontrap, and To Build a Ship - Don Berry lived and worked from 1974 until his death in 2001 as a writer, painter, musician, sculptor, instrument maker, poet, and Zen practitioner on Vashon Island, in Seattle, and at Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island. ![]()
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