{{Short description|American writer}} '''Milton Lott''' (1916 – 1996) was an author of western novels. He grew up in the Snake River Valley, in Idaho and attended University of California, Berkeley.<ref name="books2film">{{cite web |url=http://www.booksintofilms.straitjacketsmagazine.com/support-files2/last.hunt.htm |title=The Last Hunt |accessdate=2011-04-01 }}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> While there he started writing his first published novel, ''The Last Hunt''.<ref name="books2film" /> He worked on the novel while attending an English class taught by George R. Stewart,<ref name="books2film" /> himself a well published author. Lott received a citation from the National Institute of Letters and Arts for ''The Last Hunt'', and was granted a Literacy Fellowship Award by Houghton Mifflin to finish the book.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://randall120.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/ffb-the-last-hunt-milton-lott/ |title=FFB: The Last Hunt – Milton Lott |date=16 July 2010 |accessdate=2011-04-01}}</ref> ''The Last Hunt'' was selected by the Pulitzer fiction jury for the 1955 Pulitzer Prize, but John Hohenberg convinced the Pulitzer board that William Faulkner was long overdue for the award, despite his submitted novel ''A Fable'' being a lesser work of his, and the board overrode the jury's selection, much to the disgust of its members.<ref>Hohenberg, John. ''John Hohenberg: The Pursuit of Excellence'', University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1995, pp. 162-163</ref> ''The Last Hunt'' was made into a 1957 movie.
==Works== *''The Last Hunt'', Houghton Mifflin (October, 1954) *''Dance Back the Buffalo'', Houghton Mifflin (1959) *''Backtrack'', Houghton Mifflin (1965)
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==External links== *[http://randall120.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/ffb-the-last-hunt-milton-lott/ A blog page about Milton Lott and his first book.] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20091216174026/http://www.booksintofilms.com/support-files2/last.hunt.htm Books Into Films: The Last Hunt by Milton Lott]
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