The City of Trembling Leaves is not only a biography of a boy's adolescent journey, but also a biography of Reno, Nevada and the mountain country surrounding the city.
Born in 1909, Walter Van Tilburg Clark ranks as one of Nevada's most distinguished literary figures in the twentieth century, as well as a leading interpreter of the American West. With such highly acclaimed novels as The Ox-Bow Incident, The Track of the Cat, and The City of Trembling Leaves, Clark is known as a writer of national and international distinction. Walter Van Tilburg Clark died in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1971.
