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Shannon Burke

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in Wilmette, Illinois , The United States

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Shannon went to college at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He has published four novels: Safelight, Black Flies, Into the Savage Country, and The Brother Years. He has been involved in various film and TV projects, including work on the screenplay for the film Syriana, and he is the co-creator of the Netflix series Outer Banks. From the mid to late nineties he worked as a paramedic in Harlem for the New York City Fire Department. He now lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with his two sons.

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Shannon Burke After Safelight and Black Flies I was rooting around, looking for a new subject, when I stumbled across some trapper’s journals and fell in love with…more After Safelight and Black Flies I was rooting around, looking for a new subject, when I stumbled across some trapper’s journals and fell in love with the reckless, carefree world they depicted. I grew up reading adventure novels like Kidnapped and Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe and White Fang. I love books like that and I had always wanted to try my hand at something along those lines, but I didn’t know that much about trapping or that time period. So, I read a little more. I went out west, driving up the Missouri, staying at places where the trappers stayed, camping out, hiking up the drainages they trapped in, getting a feel for it. I did that a few times. I kept reading. And one day, after a year or so, I started to write without much of a plan, which is unusual for me. It took years to shape the book into the present novel, but that was the inception. (less)

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Not really a question. Just want to say, Thank You. I just finished reading "Into the Savage Country" for Amazon Vine, and while doing a little background study on you for the review, found this site. I started to read your book and couldn't put it down. Was even late for work yesterday by three hours. Can't wait to read the next one. What are you working on now?

Shannon Burke Well, thanks for the kind words. That's great that it caught your interest like that. The next book will probably be a coming of age novel that takes …moreWell, thanks for the kind words. That's great that it caught your interest like that. The next book will probably be a coming of age novel that takes place in suburban Chicago, more or less based on my childhood. It will be gritty and raw and probably with some dark humor where the kids are reveling in their abject circumstances. Thanks for writing.

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Average rating: 3.88 · 2,030 ratings · 361 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Black Flies 3.89 avg rating — 1,142 ratings — published 2008 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Into the Savage Country 3.87 avg rating — 546 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Brother Years: A Novel 4.08 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Safelight 3.61 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	911 by Shannon Burke (Goodreads Author), Diniz Galhos (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Manhattan Grand-Angle by Shannon Burke (Goodreads Author), Francis Lefebvre (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Cocaine, yeahhhhhhh!!!!!”
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“we learned the job of the western trapper—perhaps not as well as the veterans, but adequately and with what energy we could muster, and we had a fine time of it.”
― Shannon Burke, Into the Savage Country

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“am writing of the trapping land and of that glorious life that flamed up for a time in the western mountains, and of how, by luck, we came to play a small role in the great events swirling around us at the time.”
― Shannon Burke, Into the Savage Country

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