In this panel discussion, authors John N. Maclean, William Hinekebein, and Ron Ellis discuss writing books chronicling a life well-spent in nature. Nana Lampton of Hardscuffle, Inc. moderates the discussion.
Thanks to our Writer’s Room sponsors, the McClure Family Fund and the Spalding University Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing!
Author + Speaker Lineup
Ron Ellis is the author of Cogan’s Woods and Brushes with Nature: The Art of Ron van Gilder and editor of In That Sweet Country: Uncollected Writings of Harry Middleton and Of Woods & Waters: A Kentucky Outdoors Reader. He is a contributor to the anthologies A Passion for Grouse: The Lore and Legend of America’s Premier Game Bird, Astream: American Writers on Fly Fishing, Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs, and The Gigantic Book of Hunting Stories.
Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River is John N. Maclean’s sixth book. An award winning author and journalist, he spent thirty years at the Chicago Tribune, most of that time as a Washington correspondent, before taking up a second career as an author. Maclean is the son of Norman Maclean, author of A River Runs through It, the acclaimed novella about life in early twentieth century Montana.
William Hinkebein’s interest in antique tackle began in 1990 when he discovered an old tackle box (1940s) in a barn on his farm in Kentucky. Art B. Lander, Jr. has been writing about the outdoors in Kentucky since the 1970s.
