Donald mccaig biography
Donald mccaig biography
Donald McCaig, Who Followed Up ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Dies at 78!
Donald McCaig
American poet
Donald McCaig (May 1, 1940 in Butte, Montana – November 11, 2018)[1] was an American novelist, poet, essayist and sheepdog trainer.[2]
Early life and education
McCaig was born in Butte, Montana and served in the United States Marine Corps for two years.
He received a BA in philosophy from Montana State University in 1963 and subsequently completed postgraduate studies in shepherding and sheepdogs.[3]
Career
He had a brief but successful career on New York's Madison Avenue before moving to a sheep farm in Bath County, near Williamsville in the western mountains of Virginia with his wife, Anne.[4]
His 1998 novel, Jacob's Ladder, and his 2008 novel, Canaan, won the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction.[5]Jacob's Ladder also won the Library of Virginia Fiction Award, the John Esten Cooke Award for Southern Fiction, and the W.Y.
Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Mi