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Norman Maclean

A River Runs Through It

Young Men and Fire

The Norman Maclean Reader

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.”

In his eighty-eight years, Norman Maclean (1902–90) played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame and critical acclaim—as well as the devotion of readers worldwide. Though the 1976 collection A River Runs Through It and Other Stories was the only book Maclean published in his lifetime, it was an unexpected success, and the moving family tragedy of the title novella—based largely on Maclean’s memories of early twentieth-century Montana—has proved to be one of the most enduring American stories ever written. The posthumous publication in 1992 of Young Men and Fire,

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A Brief Biography of Norman Maclean

Norman Maclean was born in Clarinda, Iowa on 23 December 1902 the son of Clara and the Rev. John Maclean. Norman’s brother, Paul, was born in 1906. The family moved to Missoula, Montana in 1910. Missoula was the place that Norman considered home, and the setting that shaped much of his life and writings.

Norman’s father ministered a small Scottish Presbyterian church in Missoula. He also schooled his children at home. In the mornings, Norman and Paul would be tutored by their father in reading, and, especially, in writing; in the afternoons they were free to explore the mountains or go fishing. Norman did not attend public school until age eleven, and then only because truant officers caught up with him.

Rev. Maclean also instructed his sons in the aet of fly fishing, beginning when Norman was six years old. Both Norman and Paul developed a deep love for the sport, but Norman acknowledged that Paul was the true master of the flyrod, able to think like a fish, if not a fly. Norman would later fill his most famous work, A River Run

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Norman MacLean: A Life of Letters and Rivers (Hardcover)

By Rebecca McCarthy

$29.95

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The first biography of one of Montana's most celebrated writers

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 the murder of his brother.

Rebecca McCarthy's intimate portrait of Maclean draws on her long friendship with the author from the time she became a student at the University of Chicago through the rest of his life. Irrepressible as a teacher, Maclean shared guidance, advice, campus and city rambles, and loyal friendship with generations of students. Behin