Nate Schweber, author of This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild, will be holding a conversation at the Holland and Terrell Libraries as part of the regional Everybody Reads program on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 4 p.m. If you can’t make this, check out everybody-reads.org for other locations and times. Copies are available for checkout at the Holland and Terrell Libraries and other participating libraries. This is a great event for students as well as for others in the WSU and Pullman communities!
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 parks and public lands, although it got them blacklisted in the McCarthy era. One of the allies who joined the DeVoto’s conservation crusade was the unknown chef Julia Child, whom Avis DeVoto would make a superstar.
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.
