Levy, Buddy 1960-

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LEVY, Buddy 1960-

PERSONAL:

Born 1960. Education: University of Idaho, B.A., 1986, M.A., 1988.

ADDRESSES:

Office—English Department, Washington State University, P.O. Box 645020, Pullman, WA 99164-5020. Agent—Sally Wofford Girand, Elaine Markson Literary Agency, 44 Greenwich Ave., New York, NY 10011. E-mail—writer@buddylevy.com.

CAREER:

University of Idaho, Moscow, writing instructor, 1988-93; Washington State University, Pullman, writing instructor, 1988—.

WRITINGS:

Echoes on Rimrock: In Pursuit of the Chukar Partridge, foreword by Jack Hemingway, illustrated by David Fleming, Pruett (Boulder, CO), 1998.

American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett (biography), Putnam (New York, NY), 2005.

Contributor to anthologies, including The Gift of Birds: True Encounters with Avian Spirits, Traveler's Tales, 1999; and Chicken Soup for the Chiropractic Soul, HCI, 2003. Contributor to Web sites and periodicals, including Poets & Writers, Big Sky Journal, Canoe & Kayak, Trail Runner, Couloir, Adventure Sports, Ski, Writer's Digest, Horizon Airlines, Backpacker, Out-Post, and Field & Stream. Columnist for Hooked on the Outdoors and MountainZone.com.

SIDELIGHTS:

Buddy Levy has covered a great many sports events for various magazines and Web sites. He is also an author, including of a biography of Davy Crockett. In American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett, Levy chronicles the life of the Tennessean who was born in 1786 and died defending the Alamo in 1836. He notes that the folk hero was thrice a congressman, a potential presidential candidate, and a soldier in the War of 1812. Crockett came from very humble beginnings and spent much of his life on a small farm where his wife died during childbirth. Levy comments that Crockett's popular 1834 autobiography "prefigures by some fifty years the literary genre of 'realism,' with nothing remotely like it" until Mark Twain published his Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A Publishers Weekly contributor reported that Levy covers the familiar aspects of Crockett's life, but he also includes more "in the way of background and complexity, and is willing to expose some of Crockett's deficiencies without making judgements."