Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr. was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction during 1950 for his novel The Way West. After working 22 years as a news reporter and editor for the Lexington Leader, Guthrie wrote his first novel. Ηe was able to quit his reporting job after the publication of the novels The Big Sky and The Way West (1950 Pulitzer Prize). Guthrie died during 1991, at age 90, at his ranch near Choteau. (Source - Wikipedia)