Who is Ivan Doig from This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind and what is their importance?

Ivan Doig is the author. He was born in the 1940s in Montana. As a young, adult man he ventured far Westward where he attended the University of Washington. One of the years he was a graduate student there, the summary writer was born in the Eastern region of the country, but also in the North. Ivan Doig has settled in the Seattle area where he continues to live. This gives readers a special something when compared to reading of works of people who have died either recently or a long time ago.