John Vernon
John Vernon is a novelist, memoirist and critic whose novels have explored both real and imagined signature moments in American history, from John Wesley Powell’s 1869 voyage of discovery through the Grand Canyon in The Last Canyon, to an 1872 confab between the mother and father of American poetry, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, in Peter Doyle, to Billy the Kid’s 1881 escape from the Lincoln County jail in Lucky Billy, to Baby Doe Tabor’s years of exile in a Leadville, Colorado mining...
