| 1989 | A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. Rejected by several trade publishers, Maclean's collection is eventually published by the University of Chicago Press, its first fiction, and it becomes a bestseller. The title work deals with Maclean's youth and fly-fishing with his father and brother on Montana's Big Blackfoot River. Alfred Kazin can think of "No other 20th-century American work that is at all like [it]... there are passages here of physical rapture in the presence of unsullied primitive America that are as beautiful as anything in Thoreau and Hemingway." Born in Iowa and raised in Montana, Maclean taught English at the University of Chicago. |
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