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THIS AMERICA OF OURS: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild

By Nate Schweber

The book won the High Plains Book Award for nonfiction in 2023 as well as first place in the Outdoor Writers Association book contest. It earned a starred review from Kirkus and the Wall Street Journal called it "an energetic celebration". It tells the dramatic true story of how mid-20th century literary duo Bernard and Avis DeVoto fought for America's national parksand public lands, though it got them blacklisted in the McCarthy-era. One of the allies who joined the DeVotos' conservation crusade was then-unknown aspiring chef Julia Child, whom Avis DeVoto would make a superstar.

"A stirring story of a husband and wife and their passionate devotion to the land—and great food.  ...  An exuberant celebration of an astounding couple."

-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Author Talk & Community Conversation

Read the book and join us this November 12 - 15, 2024 for a discussion with Nate Schweber about his Everybody Reads selection, THIS AMERICA OF OURS: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild.

Until We Meet the Author

“Schweber manages to tell all these stories in a thoroughly gripping narrative, a story whose pages I could not wait to turn.”

Michael Punke, Author of "The Revenant", "Ridgeline", and "Last Stand"

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nate Schweber

NATE SCHWEBER is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Business Insider, Anthony Bourdain’s Explore Parts Unknown, and others. His conservation articles  won recognition from the Outdoor Writers Association of America, and a ProPublica series he contributed to won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2020. He was born and raised in Missoula, Montana and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Nate Schweber - Brooklyn, NY July 16, 2021. Photo credit: Dave Sanders
Nate Schweber - Brooklyn, NY July 16, 2021. Photo credit: Dave Sanders

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