Don Berry
Don Berry was born in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, United States on January 23rd, 1932 and is the American Artist And Author Best Known For His Historical Novels About Early Settlers In The Oregon C. At the age of 69, Don Berry biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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In 1956, after 144 rejection letters, Berry sold his first science fiction story, "Routine for a Hornet", which was published in the December issue of If magazine. Over the next two years, Berry published 9 more science fiction stories in various magazines, abandoning the genre with the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik in 1957, which he claimed marked the "death of science fiction."
In the late 1950s, Berry completed his first novel, Trask (1960), a historical account of a fictional episode from the life Elbridge Trask, an Oregon settler in the 1840s who became one of the first white homesteaders on Tillamook Bay. While Hal Borland praised the book for showing "an unusual understanding of the old-time mountain men and Indians and the basic drama of change in the Pacific Northwest", he faulted it for getting "somewhat lost In the obscurities or mysticism and the Inner conflicts of inarticulate white men." More recently however, the spiritual themes of the book have been subject to a critical reappraisal, with Therése Jörgne completing a phenomenological study of the novel in 2012.
Trask was published in hardcover by the New York-based publishing house Viking Books in 1960, and in paperback later the same year by Ballantine, later being re-issued by Comstock Editions. Although some paperback editions of the novel were retitled Trask: the coast of Oregon, 1848, the 2004 re-issue of the book by Oregon State University Press was published under Berry's original title.
Berry followed up on the success of Trask with A Majority of Scoundrels (Harper and Brother, 1961), which provides an "informal history" of the fur trade in the Rocky Mountains through the story of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company.
Berry's second historical novel set in the Oregon Country, Moontrap (1962), was perhaps his best known in his lifetime, having been nominated for the National Book Award in 1963. Moontrap depicts the difficult transition from fur trapping to farming, as experienced by a group of fur trappers and their Native American wives facing off against civic-minded entrepreneurs and the end of frontier justice.
Like his first two Oregon County novels, the final book in Berry's Oregon Country trilogy, To Build a Ship (1963) is based on the diary of Warren Vaughn (1823-1907), an early settler who first arrived in the Tillamook area in December 1852, travelling by foot along the Native American trail over Neahkahnie Mountain and Tillamook Head from Astoria.
According to his wife, Berry later completed a sequel to Trask, which he burned.
In the late 1960s, Berry was hired to work as a screenwriter and music producer in the film department of KGW, a Portland affiliate of Seattle's KING 5 TV, where he worked with the Hungarian-born filmmaker László Pal. The pair would go on to co-produce a number of documentary films, including Crab Fisherman, Survivor at One O'Clock, and Blue Water Hunters (1988).
After many years without publishing fiction, in the final six years of his life Berry became early adopter of the Internet for writing, posting dozens of short stories, humorous anecdotes, and philosophical essays to his personal website, "Berryworks". Although the site is no longer maintained, this large body of literature, which includes a memoir and an unfinished fantasy novel set in Minoan Crete has been preserved thanks to the Internet Archive.