DeVoto's "Easy Chair" column criticized "The Case of the Censorious Congressman" during SISS and HUAC hearings of teachers. US Representative Carroll D. Kearns called DeVoto "pro-Communist." Personal life and death DeVoto married Avis DeVoto (1904–1989), a book reviewer, editor, and avid cook. She became friends with Julia Child. Child had written a fan letter to Bernard DeVoto regarding an article of his in Harper's Magazine; he had said that he detested stainless steel knives, and she thought he was "100% right". Avis' response began a long correspondence and friendship between the two women during Child's work on her groundbreaking Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961). Child acknowledged Avis as "wet nurse" and "mentor" to the undertaking. The DeVotos' son Mark (b. 1940) is a music theorist, composer, and retired professor at Tufts University. Their older son, Gordon, a writer, died in 2009. DeVoto died on November 13, 1955. Works The Crooked Mile (1924) novel The Chariot of Fire (1926) novel (1928) novel Mark Twain's America (1932) We Accept With Pleasure (1934) novel Genius is not Enough (1936) criticism Forays and Rebuttals (1936) essays Troubled Star, by John August (1939) novel Rain Before Seven, by John August (1940) novel Mark Twain in Eruption (1940), editor Minority Report (1940) essays Mark Twain at Work (1942), editor Advance Agent, by John August (1942) novel (1942) The Literary Fallacy (1944), criticism The Portable Mark Twain (1946, editor) Across the Wide Missouri, With an Account of the Discovery of the Miller Collection (1947) [Pulitzer Prize winner] Mountain Time (1946) novel The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto (1951) The World of Fiction (1950) The Course of Empire (1952) [National Book Award] The Journals of Lewis and Clark (1953, editor) The Easy Chair (1955) essays Women and Children First by Cady Hewes (1956) essays The Letters of Bernard DeVoto (1975, edited by Wallace Stegner) The Western Paradox (2001, edited by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Nelson Limerick) DeVoto's West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good (2002, edited by Edward K. Muller) The Selected Letters of Bernard DeVoto and Katharine Sterne (2012, edited by Mark DeVoto) See also Avis DeVoto References Sources Stegner, Wallace E., The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto (1974) Stegner, Wallace E., ed., The Letters of Bernard DeVoto (1975) Topping, Gary. Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003), Saveur Magazine'', #134, December 2010, p. 41. External