Eastlake, William

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Eastlake, William (1917–1997), born and reared in New York City, after army service and residence in Paris moved to a New Mexico ranch. His novels include Go in Beauty (1956), about rivalry between brothers; Bronc People (1958), again a contrast of brothers, but these younger, also set in New Mexico; Portrait of an Artist with Twenty‐Six Horses (1963), a story of fantasy and suspense involving a white man about to die and his Navajo friend; Castle Keep (1965), concerning American soldiers seizing a European castle in World War II; The Bamboo Bed (1969), about a love affair during the Vietnam War; Dancers in the Scalp House (1975), about Navajos and a lady friend fighting the building of a dam in New Mexico; and The Long, Naked Descent into Boston (1977), a comic treatment of the American Revolutionary War. A Child's Garden of Verses for the Revolution (1970) uses prose and poetry as commentary on contemporary issues. Eastlake also publishes many short stories, e.g. Jack Armstrong in Tangier (1984).

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