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Idaho Authors in Translation An Online Exhibit In 1997, the Special Collections Department mounted an exhibit of foreign-language editions of works by Idaho authors in its exhibit cases on the second floor of Albertsons Library. The gifts of authors, book collectors, and occasionally the publishers, these editions are not easily found in the United States. Below, arranged by author, are reproductions of the dust jackets (or, in the case of paperbacks, the covers) of the books in that exhibit, plus a few more that we have acquired since, in languages ranging from French to Chinese, Gujarati to Malayalam. The books are part of the Idaho Writers Archive at Boise State University. Click on images for a caption and larger
view Nez-Perces First Book The first book published in what is now
Idaho was a translation, not from English into a foreign tongue, but from
English into the indigenous Nez Perce language.
A graduate of Boise High School and Boise Junior College,
Anderson was a career Air Force officer who eventually retired back to his
home town. His best selling book, Bat-21 (1980) was the story of the rescue of an American aviator in Vietnam. Translated into several foreign
languages, it was also made into a motion picture starring Gene Hackman and
Danny Glover in 1988.
Glenn Balch Most of Glenn Balch's books were stories for
young people, many of them set in Idaho.
Carol Ryrie Brink A native of Moscow, Brink won the Newbery Medal in 1936 for "Caddie Woodlawn," a novel based on stories of her grandmother's childhood.
Edgar Rice Burroughs The author of Tarzan lived several years in Idaho as
a young man and served briefly on the Parma town council.
Vardis Fisher A native of Idaho, Fisher lived most of his adult life in Hagerman, in sight of the Snake River.
Lois Hamilton Fuller Lois Hamilton Fuller's long periods of residence overseas inspired many of her children's stories.
See Something About the Author, vol. 11, for a biographical
sketch Ernest Hemingway Hemingway first came to Idaho on a visit to the Sun Valley resort in 1939. He returned many times and made his last home in Ketchum, where he died in 1961.
A former schoolteacher, Grace Jordan was an accomplished author and wife of Idaho Governor and U.S. Senator Len B. Jordan. Her best-loved book, "Home Below Hell's Canyon" (1954), tells the story of their life as sheep ranchers in the deep canyon of the Snake River.
Marcia Hoebel Porter Marcia Hoebel Porter (1918-1996) was a twenty-three year old reporter for the Idaho Statesman when, on August 26, 1941, her car went over the side of a hill in Boise, resulting in the loss of a leg. "The Leg and I," a light-hearted, inspirational memoir of her life after the accident, has been translated into German. She lived in Arco most of her life.
Clara Spiegel A native of Chicago, Clara Spiegel first visited Sun Valley in 1937, several weeks after the resort's opening and not long after leaving her husband, of mail-order catalog fame. She eventually relocated permanently to Ketchum, where she died in 1997 at the age of 92. A friend of Hemingway's, she reportedly caught a 23-inch trout from her wheelchair just two weeks before her death. In the 1940s, she co-authored several novels with her former Vassar classmate Jane Mayer under the joint pseudonym Clare Jaynes.
See also "Sun Valley: An Extraordinary History," by
Wendolyn S. Holland (1998)
Blossom M. Turk A teacher and professional counselor, Blossom M. Turk wrote a weekly column for the Idaho Statesman on children and teenagers.
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