A. B. Guthrie Jr.
When he was six months old he relocated with his parents to Montana,[1] where his father became the first principal of the Teton County Free High School in Choteau.[2]: 1 A constant reader, Guthrie tried to write while in high school, "fiction pretty much, some essays, but I majored in journalism.[2]: 128 [6][7] In 1944, while still at the Leader, Guthrie won the Nieman Fellowship from Harvard,[5][8] and spent the year at the university studying writing.[3]:18 After publication of The Big Sky Guthrie left the paper and supported himself by teaching creative writing at University of Kentucky.[6][10] He quit teaching in 1952 to devote his full-time to writing,[5] and moved back to Choteau, Montana, because he said it was his "point of outlook on the universe".