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Novelist Bernard Augustine DeVoto's father was among the original Mormon pioneers who settled in Utah. DeVoto began his studies at the University of Utah before transferring to Harvard University in Massachusetts. When World War I began, he enlisted in the army as an infantry lieutenant but did not see combat abroad. After the war, he returned to Harvard and graduated in 1920.
Between 1922 and 1927, he served as an instructor and assistant professor of English at Northwestern University, then moved on to teach at Harvard. In 1936, he became editor of "The Saturday Review of Literature," a position he held for two years before returning to Harvard. His passion for American history, particularly the American West, inspired him to write several novels on the topic, most notably "Across the Wide Missouri," which was adapted into a film starring Clark Gable in 1951.
