Susan Devoto, a two-term West Sonoma County School District trustee, who was also a farmer, activist, world traveler and artist, died Friday after a yearlong battle with brain cancer. A ...

Bernard DeVoto was in many ways an unlikely foe of politicians of the day who would attempt to sell off federal lands to their cronies. Photo from Utah Division of State History One of my favorite ...

It is difficult to think of a more challenging subject for a biography than Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955), the prolific critic, editor, environmental activist and historian extraordinaire. And that’s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The University of Colorado at Boulder has given an honorary Ph.D. to a contentious public figure with a habit of using words like “stupidity,” “idiocy,” and ...

Seattle Chief Technology Officer Erin Devoto resigned today after accepting a job with the City of Kirkland in the Public Works department. Devoto, who replaced former CTO Bill Schrier in April 2012, ...

“As Always, Julia” is an epistolary love story, a romance that began with a fan letter and the gift of a paring knife. The letter was to the writer and historian Bernard DeVoto, who had written in ...

Looking back, it all seems awfully po-faced. It was not inapprop-riate in some ways, but these days I try not to look desperately earnest and solemn in photos." Howard Devoto, punk pioneer, post-punk ...

MARK TWAIN AT WORK—Bernard DeVoto-Harvard ($2). The work of Mark Twain is America’s literary Comstock lode and its foremost assayer is bellicose Bernard DeVoto (Mark Twain’s America, 1932). As ...