Turning the page to another season: Harrison, Cates, other local authors have new work Oct 6, 2008
"The Norman Maclean Reader" edited by Alan Welztein. A generous selection of letters, as well as excerpts from a 1986 interview give a portrait of Norman Maclean, showing us a writer fully aware of the nuances of his craft ... Longtime fans of Norman Maclean will gain new insight into his life and career. (Missoulian, MT)
Hallowed halls: Missoula high school celebrates 100 years and two names Oct 3, 2008
"MCHS had its colors early. They were purple and gold. Some time in the 1930s it developed a nickname as well - the Spartans.The traditions crystalized over the years, from the yearbook, the Bitter Root, which later became the Bitterroot; to the school newspaper, the Konah; to the literary magazine, the Kopee; to the annual whitewashing of the letters "MCHS" on Mount Jumbo, just east of the present-day "L."You sit in the Hellgate cafeteria and think of who ate their lunch here before you. The... (Missoulian, MT)
Obituary: Frances Thornton Stutzman Aug 15, 2008
In a commemorative book presented to Stutzman at her retirement in 1978, the late Norman MacLean (Ph. D., 40), who taught English at Chicago for 40 years, wrote: For a long time, I have known that great institutions like the Forest Service and the University of Chicago are run by five or six women behind the scenes. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Literary honor: Longtime UM professor Harry Fritz recognized for his writing Apr 10, 2008
They chose to honor him at the 45th annual Friends of Mike and Maureen Mansfield Library banquet next week as a worthy member of Montana's literary pantheon, alongside authors Norman Maclean, Patricia Goedicke, Michael Malone and Ivan Doig. So many people think of Harry as a Montana history person, but he's actually well-known for his American history courses and his military courses, fellow UM professor and banquet organizer Sally Brewer said. (Missoulian, MT)
Southwest Montana Snapshots Mar 2, 2008
Western prof edits Maclean reader DILLON The Norman Maclean Reader, edited by University of Montana Western English professor O. Alan Weltzien, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in November ... The Norman Maclean Reader contains essays, an interview and a selection of letters to individuals important to McLean s work ... Norman Maclean died on Aug. 2, 1990, in Chicago, at the age of 87 of natural causes. (Montana Standard, MT)
Missoula author tackles Mann Gulch in new fictionalization (332) Oct 13, 2007
A Great Day to Fight Fire author Mark Matthews acknowledged it was difficult to write about Mann Gulch after the classic Young Men and Fire by renowned writer Norman Maclean, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award after its publication in 1992 and was lauded by the New York Times as a magnificent drama of writing, a tragedy that pays tribute to the dead and offers rescue to the living. But Matthews said the Maclean book didn t delve into the personal lives of the victims and after... (Helena Independent Record)
A New Approach To Fighting Western Fires Oct 3, 2007
The author Norman Maclean immortalized images of Montana's wilderness in his book "A River Runs Through It" and his son John has written his own chronicles about wildfire and death in the western states. Writing about two recent disasters - the South Canyon Fire that killed 14 firefighters in Colorado and the 30 Mile Fire that left four dead in Washington State - Maclean told CBS News affiliate KPAX those experiences have changed the culture of the U.S. Forest Service when it comes to fighting... (CBS News)
Chief Justice Roberts in Montana for first speech since seizure Sep 15, 2007
Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday delivered what is believed to be his first speech since suffering a seizure earlier this summer, drawing on work by the late writer Norman Maclean to inspire a group of law students. Looking fit and energetic, Roberts cited Maclean s obsess i o n w i t h inve s t i g a t i n g Montana s Mann Gulch Fire of 1949, which Maclean chronicled in the book Young Men and Fire. (Havre Daily News, MT)
View from the bench / Roberts seeks to inspire in UM lectures Sep 14, 2007
Referencing the work of acclaimed Montana writer Norman Maclean on Thursday, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts Jr. sought to inspire and encourage a future generation of lawyers, comparing the fundamentals of their chosen profession to firefighting. t might seem that smokejumpers and litigators have nothing in common, Roberts told an overflow audience at the University Theatre. (Missoulian, MT)
Roberts compares lawyers to firefighters Sep 14, 2007
Roberts referred to the work of the late author Norman Maclean, who grew up in Missoula and whose book "Young Men and Fire" chronicled the role of firefighters in Montana's deadly Mann Gulch Fire of 1949. Like Maclean, lawyers and judges must sift through mountains of information to find the evidence that really matters, he said. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Wildfire evokes shades of the past Jul 25, 2007
GATES OF THE MOUNTAINS With a copy of Norman Maclean s Young Men and Fire on the dash of his boat, Tim Crawford watched the smoke rise from this deep river canyon, not far from where 13 smokejumpers died in 1949 fighting the Mann Gulch fire. Crawford, owner of Gates of the Mountains Boat Tours, is well aware of the canyon s fire history, including the 1949 blaze memorialized by MacLean in his book. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Forest Service: Montana dam, contaminated waste must be removed Jul 25, 2007
The Mike Horse Dam built in 1941 at the headwaters of the Blackfoot, the river celebrated in the Norman MacLean novel "A River Runs Through It," failed during a 1975 flood that washed the waste downstream, killing fish and other aquatic life in the upper 10 miles of the river. The dam is "a ticking time bomb," Bruce Farling of the conservation group Trout Unlimited said Tuesday. (Montana Standard, MT)
Academic publishing veteran to direct the University Press Jul 14, 2007
In addition to its well-known scholarly output, the press has published some important trade books, such as Norman Maclean s A River Runs Through It and Young Men and Fire, which made the national best-seller list in 1992, and One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko, a collection of columns by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune newspaperman. Kiely succeeds Paula Barker Duffy, who has led the Press since 2000. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Where memories still smoulder May 27, 2007
While devastating in its time, the story of the catastrophic Mann Gulch blaze gained international fame with Norman Maclean s 1992 best-seller Young Men and Fire. Since the book s publication, hundreds of people each year take the boat ride up the Missouri River to stop at either the guard station or the gulch and hike to the site where the fire outran the firefighters. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Maclean Faculty Awards will go to Bevington, Nicholas May 25, 2007
Two emeritus professors at the University will receive the Norman Maclean Faculty Award given by the Alumni Association at the annual Alumni Convocation held on Saturday, June 2 during Alumni Weekend ... The awards were given for the first time in 1997 and are named for Professor Norman Maclean (Ph. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
