Norman Maclean
| Norman Fitzroy Maclean | |
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| Born |
December 23, 1902 Clarinda, Iowa |
| Died | August 2, 1990 (aged 87) Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Occupation | Author English literature professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | Scots |
| Alma mater |
Dartmouth College University of Chicago |
| Notable works |
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (1976) Young Men and Fire (1992) |
| Spouse | Jessie Burns (1905–1968) |
| Children | Jean (b. 1942) John (b. 1943) |
Norman Fitzroy Maclean (December 23, 1902 – August 2, 1990) was an American author and scholar noted for his books A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (1976) and Young Men and Fire (1992).
Born in Clarinda, Iowa, on December 23, 1902, Maclean was the son of Clara Evelyn (née Davidson; 1873–1952) and the Reverend John Norman Maclean (1862–1941), a Presbyterian minister, who managed much of the education of the young Norman and his brother Paul Davidson (1906–1938) until 1913. His parents had migrated from Nova Scotia, Canada. After Clarinda, the family relocated to Missoula, Montana in 1909. The following years considerably influenced and inspired his writings, appearing prominently in the short story The Woods, Books, and Truant Officers (1977), and semi-autobiographical novella A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (1976).
Too young to enlist in the military during World War I, Maclean worked in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service in what is now the Bitterroot National Forest of northwestern Montana. The novella USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky and the story "Black Ghost" in Young Men and Fire (1992) are semi-fictionalized accounts of these experiences.
He then attended Dartmouth College, where he served as editor-in-chief of the humor magazine the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern; the editor-in-chief to follow him was Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. He was also a member of the Sphinx and Beta Theta Pi. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1924 and chose to remain in Hanover, New Hampshire to serve as an instructor until 1926—a time he recalled in "This Quarter I Am Taking McKeon: A Few Remarks on the Art of Teaching." On September 24, 1931 Maclean married Jessie Burns (1905–1968), a red-headed Scots-Irish woman from Wolf Creek, Montana. They later had two children: a daughter Jean (born in 1942), now a lawyer, and a son, John (born in 1943), now a journalist and author of Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire (1999) and two other books, Fire & Ashes (2003) and The Thirtymile Fire: A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal (2007).
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