Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2001
Abstract
As a Western writer, Gretel Ehrlich is something of a curious case. By birth a Californian, Ehrlich has nevertheless shaped her identity as a Western writer by experience gathered elsewhere in the West. At the same time, while Ehrlich has lived and written extensively about her life in north-central Wyoming—and built her considerable reputation upon that work—the arc of her experience has carried her for the moment back to her native California. This movement from place to place (Ehrlich has been a writer of many places in her career) suggests a dominant tension in her life and work: that of locating oneself in time and place, of determining the nature of home.
Recommended Citation
Morris, Gregory L. Gretel Ehrlich. Boise, ID: Boise State University, 2001. Digital. Western Writers Series, 150.