W Dale Nelson

Nelson, W. Dale

(?) -

Laramie, WY

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Biographical and Professional Information

W. Dale Nelson spent 40 years as a reporter for the Associated Press, first in western bureaus and then for 20 years in Washington D.C. During most of that time, his poetry has been published widely in magazines in the United States and Canada, and on occasion in England and Australia. Nelson is the author of four books, most recently: Gin Before Breakfast: The Dilemma of the Poet in the Newsroom, and is at work on a biography of the Denver publisher and poet Alan Swallow, who was born and raised in Powell and graduated from the University of Wyoming. In recent years, Nelson served as correspondent in Laramie, where he now lives, for the Casper Star-Tribune.

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Autobiography or Biography

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Titles

Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: The story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau (2003). Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press. ISBN: 1574411659.

Who Speaks for the President? The White House press secretary from Cleveland to Clinton (1998). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. ISBN: 0815605145.