Norman Maclean: A Life of Letters and Rivers by Rebecca McCarthy

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Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum and UW Press are delighted to welcome author Rebecca McCarthy, in conversation with author Jonathan Evison, about her book, Norman Maclean: A Life of Letters and Rivers. The book will be available for purchase at the event in partnership with The Elliott Bay Book Company. 

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned 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…