Stories from The River: Pete Fromm

Pete Fromm is the author of five story collections, eight novels, and two memoirs about his times in the wilderness. A five-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Literary Award, he may be best known in the U.S. for Indian Creek Chronicles, the recounting of a winter spent alone in the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness. He also has a long history of being published in Europe, most notably France, where his new novel, Empress of the Air, came out last spring. After a decade as a river ranger for the National Park Service, and more than 25 years in Great Falls, he now lives in Missoula.
Pete will read from Indian Creek Chronicles and from The Names of the Stars, discussing about a career where he got to stay outside and avoid “real work”.