One of the earlier and more well-known Pacific Northwest authors is William Stafford. He was a man who was known for his striking and honest poems and his untraditional beliefs, which shone through his work. For example, he was a pacifist and conscientious objector during World War Two, which was an event that sparked patriotism like never before in many Americans. Stafford questioned the hierarchy of nature that modern society has established. He wondered whose job it was to dictate which beings lived while others perished. Stafford was not alone in these thoughts, Nicholas O’Connell, another Pacific Northwest author, agrees with his sentiments. O’Connell argues that the principal theme in all Pacific Northwest literature is “the relation
