Background
Robert Gatewood was born in 1974 in Buffalo, New York. Gatewood's parents who encouraged an outdoor, physical existence brought their kids to a ranch in Steamboat Springs for summer vacations.
Robert Gatewood
3100 Marine Street, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
Robert Gatewood attended the University of Colorado Boulder.
1 College St, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610, United States
Robert Gatewood graduated from the College of the Holy Cross with a Bachelor of Arts in 1995.
777 Pearl St #211, Boulder, Colorado 80302, United States
Robert Gatewood with his workmates from Boulder Writing Studio.
Robert Gatewood
3100 Marine Street, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
Robert Gatewood attended the University of Colorado Boulder.
1 College St, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610, United States
Robert Gatewood graduated from the College of the Holy Cross with a Bachelor of Arts in 1995.
777 Pearl St #211, Boulder, Colorado 80302, United States
Robert Gatewood with his workmates from Boulder Writing Studio.
Robert Gatewood
Robert Gatewood
(An extraordinary debut that brings together a hypnotic qu...)
An extraordinary debut that brings together a hypnotic quest, a thrilling Western, and an unforgettable love story. Set in the 1930s, The Sound of the Trees tells the story of Trude Mason, who, seeking to escape a brutal father and a violent past, sets out with his mother on horseback on a grueling journey through the extreme desert and mountainous terrain of southwestern New Mexico. Their destination is Colorado, a place Trude imagines to be abundantly fertile, wild, and free. But along the way, Trude finds himself in the clutches of a small New Mexican border town, once again a victim of brutality and lawlessness, this time in the form of a pitiless sheriff and his posse. When they arrest and sentence to death a young woman whose life Trude has saved, he must face an explosive collision between conscience and self-preservation.
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2002
Robert Gatewood was born in 1974 in Buffalo, New York. Gatewood's parents who encouraged an outdoor, physical existence brought their kids to a ranch in Steamboat Springs for summer vacations.
Robert Gatewood graduated from the College of the Holy Cross with a Bachelor of Arts in 1995. Gatewood also attended the University of Colorado Boulder.
Following four years at the Jesuit College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, Robert Gatewood set out for Colorado and did stints working in Steamboat Springs and Crested Butte. Gatewood worked as a bartender at Eske's in Taos, New Mexico, and was a ranch hand. He worked for an old, 50-year-old alcoholic cowboy in Tesuque, New Mexico, whose house was in disrepair. As Robert said, he repaired roofs there, everything falling down. His first novel, written in Crested Butte but unpublished, in his own words "was an absolute disaster."
His acclaimed first published novel, The Sound of the Trees, appeared in 2002, garnered grants from the MacArthur and Whiting Foundations and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. Robert has over 20 years of teaching and writing experience. He held positions of literary editor and feature writer at the Traffic East magazine for several years (2000-2008), and his short fiction has been published in numerous journals. Gatewood also worked as a creative writing instructor at the University of Colorado (2008-2010), co-creative director at 1 Story Design company (from 2012). In 2010 Robert Gatewood has founded the Boulder Writing Studio and has been serving as its executive director.
Robert Gatewood is a writer and the author of The Sound of the Trees novel. This book garnered grants from the MacArthur and Whiting Foundations and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo as well as was a Book Sense 76 selection and was listed among the best books of the Southwest. Robert has over 20 years of teaching and writing experience.
(An extraordinary debut that brings together a hypnotic qu...)
2002Quotations: "You want to spin a good yarn, to take 'em away." (when asked why to bother with a novel).
When Robert Gatewood was a kid he wanted to be a rodeo rider or a professional athlete. As a teenager, he wanted to become a writer. He said: "The turning point was reading Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse in high school. Something in that book broke my heart in a way that I wanted it to be broken again. Then came Robert Frost, and the same thing happened again." Robert loves myth, allegory, and parables.
