Richard Scowcroft

Richard Scowcroft (June 26, 1916 – October 8, 2001) was an American writer and teacher of writers long associated with Stanford University, where he co-founded the creative-writing program with, and ultimately succeeded, Wallace Stegner as director.^[1] Among the writers taught were Tillie Olsen, Wendell Berry, Robert Stone, Larry McMurtry, Karen Rosenbaum, Ed McClanahan, Ken Kesey,^[2] Scott Turow^[3] and Chuck Kinder.^[4] Scowcroft's work frequently featured themes based in his Mormon upbringing.

Novels

• Children of the Covenant (1945)
• First Family (1950)
• A View of the Bay (1955)
• Wherever She Goes (1966)
• The Ordeal of Dudley Dean (1969)
• Back to Fire Mountain (1973)