Ordinary Lives: Memoirs of American Woman

Mary Clearman Blew

All But The Waltz

Background

• Born in 1939 in the Judith River valley of central Montana.

Career

• Teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature at University of Idaho.
• All But the Waltz won 1992 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.

Major Writings

Memoirs

All But the Waltz (1991)
Balsamroot (1994)

Short Fiction

Lambing Out (1977)
Runaway (1990)

Anthologies

Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers (1994, co-editor)
The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology (co-editor)

Critical Sources and Reviews

• New York Times Book Review, December 8, 1991 (in online archives)
  "Grandpa Was a Cowboy" by Susan Allen Toth