Paul George Vincent O’Shaughnessy Horgan (August 1, 1903 – March 8, 1995) was an American writer of historical fiction and non-fiction who mainly wrote about the Southwestern United States. He was the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes for History.
Historian David McCullough wrote of Horgan in 1989: “With the exception of Wallace Stegner, no living American has so distinguished himself in both fiction and history.”
Books in order of publication:
Fiction
The Fault of Angels (1933)
No Quarter Given (1935)
The Return of the Weed (1936) short stories
Main Line West (1936)
A Lamp on the Plains (1937)
Far from Cibola (1938)
The Habit of Empire (1939)
Figures in the Landscape (1940)
The Common Heart (1942)
Devil in the Desert (1950)
Things As They Are (1951)
One Red Rose for Christmas (1952)
The Saintmaker’s Christmas Eve (1955)
Give Me Possession (1957)
A Distant Trumpet (1960)
Mountain Standard Time (1962) contains Main Line West, Far from Cibola, and The Common Heart
Toby and the Nighttime (1963) juvenile
Memories of the Future (1966)
The Peach Stone: Stories from Four Decades (1967) short stories
Everything to Live For (1968)
Whitewater (1970)
The Thin Mountain Air (1977)
Mexico Bay (1982)
The Clerihews of Paul Horgan (1985) light verse
The Richard Trilogy (1990) contains Things As they Are, Everything to Live For, and The Thin Mountain Air
Nonfiction
Men of Arms (1931)
From the Royal City (1936)
New Mexico’s Own Chronicle (with historian Maurice Garland Fulton) (1937)
Diary and Letters of Josiah Gregg, 1840-1847 (1941)
Look at America: The Southwest (1947)
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History (1951)
The Centuries of Santa Fe (1956)
Rome Eternal (1959)
Citizen of New Salem (1961)
Conquistadors in North American History (1963)
Songs After Lincoln (1965)
Peter Hurd: A Portrait Sketch from Life (1965) about the painter Peter Hurd
Maurice Baring Restored (editor) (1969) about the poet Maurice Baring
The Heroic Triad. Essays in the Social Energies of Three Southwestern Cultures (1970)
Encounters with Stravinsky (1972) about the composer Igor Stravinsky
Approaches to Writing (1974)
Lamy of Santa Fe: His Life and Times (1975) about Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy
Josiah Gregg and His Vision of the Early West (1979) about the explorer Josiah Gregg
Henriette Wyeth (1980) about the painter Henriette Wyeth
On the Climate of Books (1981) essays
Of America: East & West (1984)
Under the Sangre de Cristo (1985)
A Certain Climate (1988) essays
A Writer’s Eye (1988)
Tracings: A Book of Partial Portraits (1993)
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