Biography donald mccaig

American poet

Donald McCaig (May 1, in Butte, Montana – November 11, )^[1] was an American novelist, poet, essayist and sheepdog trainer.^[2]

Early life and education

McCaig was born in Butte, Montana and served in the United States Marine Corps for two years.

He received a BA in philosophy from Montana State University in and subsequently completed postgraduate studies in shepherding and sheepdogs.^[3]

Career

He had a brief but successful career on New York's Madison Avenue before moving to a sheep farm in Bath County, near Williamsville in the western mountains of Virginia with his wife, Anne.^[4]

His novel, Jacob's Ladder, and his novel, Canaan, won the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction.^[5]Jacob's Ladder also won the Library of Virginia Fiction Award, the John Esten Cooke Award for Southern Fiction, and the W.Y.

Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction.^[6&#