Bain, David Haward

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Name (Latin)
Bain, David Haward
Other forms of name
Bain, David Haward, 1949-
Date of birth
1949
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 62842459
Wikidata: Q47112601
Library of congress: n 80056386
Sources of Information
  • His Aftershocks, c1980:t.p. (David Haward Bain)
  • His Aftershocks, 1986:t.p. (David Haward Bain) p. i (b. 1949)
  • His web site, 30 Sept. 2010(David Haward Bain has conducted prose and poetry workshops at Middlebury College since 1987, and has been associated with the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in varying capacities since 1980. Born in Camden, New Jersey and raised in Port Washington, New York, he was educated at Boston University and then lived in New York City for 14 years, working first in book publishing and then as a full-time writer)
  • His web site, 30 Sept. 2010(titles: The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West, 2004; Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad, 1999; The College on the Hill, 1999; Whose Woods These Are: A History of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1993; Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines, 1984; Aftershocks, 1980)
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Wikipedia description:

David Haward Bain (born February 23, 1949) is an American writer of nonfiction, a lecturer, an editor, and was a longtime instructor in literature and creative writing at Middlebury College. Bain has been affiliated with the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference since 1980. He is also a lifelong musician. Bain is primarily known for his work of narrative history, Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad; a historical travel memoir, The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Roads, Rails, and the Urge to Go West; and an earlier braided historical/travel work, Sitting In Darkness: Americans in the Philippines. He is a fellow in the Society of American Historians.

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