Harold Lenoir Davis was born in Nonpareil, Douglas County, Oregon, in 1894. His first poems appeared in Poetry magazine in 1919 and won the magazine's Levinson Prize. He also wrote short stories for magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's.
He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1932. Honey in the Horn (1935) won the Harper Prize for best first novel and the Pulitzer Prize, and it is the only Pulitzer Prize for literature awarded to a native Oregonian. His later books include Harp of a Thousand Strings (1941) and Winds of Morning (1952). He died in San Antonio, Texas, in 1960.
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