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Thomas Savage was born on 25 April 1915 in Salt Lake City, Utah, to a large sheep-ranching family. His parents divorced when he was two years old, and on his mother's remarriage Savage moved with her to Montana. He studied at the University of Montana and worked as a ranch hand for several years, but when an article he wrote on horse-breaking was published in Coronet magazine in 1937, Savage enrolled at Colby College in Maine to study English. He went on to have a variety of jobs, including welder, insurance man and plumber as well as teaching English at Brandeis and Vassar. His first novel, The Pass, was published in 1944 and he went on to write twelve more, including The Power of the Dog. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1980. Thomas Savage died in Virginia on 25 July 2003, aged eighty-eight.
An exhilarating drama between two brothers set in Twenties Montana, and better even than Stoner -- Nicholas Shakespeare Daily Telegraph Something aching and lonely and terrible of the west is caught forever on Savage's pages, and the most compelling and painful of [his] books is The Power of the Dog, a work of literary art -- Annie Proulx, from her afterword If there were justice in the literary marketplace, surely one or another of Thomas Savage's dozen novels would have been topping bestseller lists for the past 30-odd years... New York Times Book Review Savage writes like thunder and lightning. A flash will illuminate startling detail, a rumble will bring a fierce revelation, a philosophy, a big picture. It has a jarring, unsettling effect, like many great books, a reminder of inevitable change, of civilizations crumbling Los Angeles Times Readers were spooked by this iconoclastic Western when it first appeared in 1967, and it was quickly buried...Savage is a master of narrative technique, and he takes sardonic pleasure in introducing Zane Grey to Sigmund Freud. Truths that once shocked now satisfy: better late than never Boston Globe
