From Idea to Novel: A Writer and Activist at Work
Rick Bass
Wednesday, 09 Mar 2011 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Author and environmentalist Rick Bass is the author of more than twenty books, including the autobiographical Why I Came West and the short story collection The Lives of Rocks. A Texan by birth, Bass worked as a gas and oil geologist in Mississippi after earning a degree from Utah State University. His career as an author grew out of a pastime of writing short stories during his lunch breaks. In 1987 Bass moved to the Yaak Valley in the northern Rockies, where he has been active in protecting the land from roads and logging and serves on the board of the Yaak Valley Forest Council and Round River Conservation Studies. His first short story collection, The Watch, set in Texas, won the PEN/Nelson Algren Award; and his 2002 collection, The Hermit's Story, was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. His latest novel, Nashville Chrome, draws on the rise and fall of the Brown trio, the true-life country music trailblazers who pioneered the 1950s sound from which the novel takes its title.Photo Credit: Nicole Blaisdell
Cosponsored By:
- MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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