"Sheltering the Creative Spirit"
Taos, New Mexico USA
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"Sheltering the Creative Spirit"
Taos, New Mexico USA
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Frank Waters Chronology Click dates of interest in table below.
1946-1969 Published works appear in Pink. 1946
Moved to Taos. Divorced from Lois Moseley. July: The Colorado issued for members of
the National Travel Club. September 9:
The Colorado officially published in the Rivers of America Series
by Rinehart & Company.
December 29
Alan Swallow interested in reprinting Waters’ books.
1947
Lived in Taos area.
Bought Arroyo Seco property. Married
Jane Somervell. Began Masked Gods while
staying at Hawk Ranch, Lobo Mountain. Wrote Diamond Head while living in Harwood Foundation apartment during winter. April 10 Yogi of Cockroach
Court published by Rinehart & Company.
1948
Lived in Twenty Nine Palms, California. During fall picked apples in Columbia River Valley, Washington. Finished Masked Gods. April
23,
1949
Lived in Taos and Arroyo Seco. Served as editor-in-chief of Taos’ bilingual weekly newspaper, El Crepusculo, 1949-1951. 1950 Lived in Nicolai Fechin’s
Taos studio. Summer, lived in Arroyo Seco December 2: Masked Gods published by University of New Mexico Press
1951
Left El Crepusculo.
Lived in Tucson, Arizona;
traveled in Mexico.
1952
Lived in Las Vegas, Nevada, at Nevada test sites, in Albuquerque, and in Arroyo Seco, where periodically restored, expanded house. 1953
Awarded Taos Artists Award for
Notable Achievement in the Art of Writing.
1953 - 1956
Lived at Jacona Ranch in
Pojoaque (below Los Alamos). Worked as Information Consultant for Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Lived three months each year in
Las Vegas, Nevada.
1955
Divorced from Jane Waters.
1956
Wrote The Woman at Otowi
Crossing, first draft.
Barbara, Frank and Mrs. Dawn Howell at Otowi, 1979 1957
Lived in Los Angeles.
Wrote for C. V. Whitney Motion
Pictures Company; used money to modernize Arroyo Seco kitchen.
Rewrote The Woman at Otowi Crossing and The Earp Brothers of Tombstone (final draft).
1958
Lived in Santa Fe.
Began Leon Gaspard. Rewrote The Woman at Otowi
Crossing (third draft). Wrote for John S. Candelario Pictures, Santa Fe; script much later became Flight from Fiesta. 1959 - 1963
Worked on Book of the Hopi; lived much of time on Hopi Reservation on research grant from Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation, New York. 1960
Jane Somervell died.
June 16: The Earp Brothers of Tombstone published by Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. 1961 Married Rose Woodell.
1963
October Robert Gilruth
published by Encyclopaedia Brittanica Press
December 2 Book of the Hopi published
by The Viking Press.
1964
Lived in Taos at Woodell Brooks
Street home and in Arroyo Seco. Traveled
in Chihuahua, Mexico.
October: Leon Gaspard published by Northland Press. 1965
Divorced from Rose Woodell.
Finished fourth draft of The
Woman at Otowi Crossing. Wrote Pumpkin Seed Point.
Made three trips to Chihuahua. 1966
Writer-in-Residence at Colorado
State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, spring semester.
Lectured on “Mysticism and
Witchcraft,” later published,
reprinted (gave several shorter talks in previous years).
October 31: The Woman at Otowi Crossing published by Alan Swallow. 1967
Lived in Santa Fe.
Director, New Mexico Arts Commission. 1968
Awarded Honorary Life
Membership in Western Literature Association; delivered paper titled
“Words,” later published by WLA.
1968 - 1969
Lived in Arroyo Seco.
Rewrote Colorado trilogy as Pike’s Peak.
Only sibling, Naomi Arnell,
died (1969).
May 1, 1969: Pumpkin Seed
Point published by Swallow Press Inc.
Go to Waters' Chronology -> 1902-1945
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