Ivan Doig (/ˈaɪvən ˈdɔɪɡ/; June 27, 1939 – April 9, 2015) was an American author and novelist, widely known for his sixteen fiction and non-fiction books set mostly in his native Montana, celebrating the landscape and people of the post-war American West. In 2006, Sven Birkerts described Doig as "a presiding figure in the literature of the American West." — Ivan Doig