Norman Maclean A Life of Letters and Rivers

Introduction

The first biography of one of Montana’s most celebrated writers.A River Runs Through It and Other Storiesturned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after the success of the Hollywood film based on the title story. Yet fewer know of Maclean’s lifelong struggles to reconcile very different parts of himself: the revered teacher and writer in the intellectual hub of Chicago and the Montana man compelled by the wildness and traumas of his home state and family, including the tragic Mann Gulch fire and the murder of his brother. 6×9 inches, 272 pgs.