The Nevada They Knew Index, Notes, and References

Anthony Shafton (1937- ) is a Chicago native and Reno resident, with degrees from Harvard College and Stanford’s graduate Creative Writing Program. He has published five books: The Apostate Heriger (1962), a novel; Conditions of Awareness (1976), a monograph on primate psychology and human paleopsychology; Dream Reader (1995), a survey of psychological approaches to dream interpretation; and Dream-Singers (2002), a sociology of African-American dreaming and dream sharing.

The Nevada They Knew, Shafton's most recent book published in 2017, is about the friendship between artist Robert Cole Caples and author Walter Van Tilburg Clark and Shafton's associations with the two men. The book is a culmination of many years of correspondence that began when Shafton wrote a fan letter to Clark about his novel The City of Trembling Leaves. Through Clark’s introduction, Shafton met Caples in 1964, overnighting at Robert and Rosemary Caples’ Connecticut estate. Shafton never met Caples again, but the two corresponded from 1964 until the artist’s death.