A.B. Guthrie The Big Sky

•A.B.Guthrie was named Alfred Bertram: born Jan. 13, 1901, Bedford, Ind.,U.S.—died April 26, 1991, Choteau, Mont.

• •The author called himself "Bud" because he felt that Alfred Bertram was
• "a sissy name.”

• •Guthrie lived in Montana but traveled to California and New York for an number of jobs, he worked
• for 20 years for the Lexington Leader newspaper in Kentucky

• •He was an award winning writer who wrote about the wild west, his book “The Way
• West” (1949) won a Pulitzer Prize

• •Guthrie also worked in the film business where he was a screen writer for the movie
• Shane (1953) which is a classic western film