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Author Bio
• Birth—December 23, 1902
• Where—Clarinda, Iowa, USA
• Reared—Missoula, Montana
• Death—August 2, 1990
• Where—Chicago, Illinois
• Education—B.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., University of
Chicago
• Awards—National Book Critics Award, 1992
Norman Maclean grew up in the western Rocky Mountains in the early decades of the 20th century. He worked many summers in logging camps and for the U.S. Forest Service. This novella is based on his experiences of a young man who found that life was only a step from art in its structures and beauty. The beauty he found was in reality.
Maaclean was William Rainey Harper Professor of English at the University of Chicago. He died in 1990. (From Wikipedia.)