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John N. Maclean

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June 28, 1943

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John Norman Maclean is a prize-winning author and journalist, has published four books on fatal wildland fires.

Maclean was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1943, the second of two children.Maclean is the son of Norman Maclean, author of the novella A River Runs Through It.

He attended the Chicago school system through high school and graduated from Shimer College, then in Mt. Carroll, Illinois, a former satellite school of the University of Chicago. An honor student at Shimer, he received the school’s distinguished alumni award in 1975.He married Frances Ellen McGeachie in 1968; they have two adult sons, Daniel, a science teacher in Anchorage, Alaska, and John Fitzroy, a public defender for the state of Maryland.

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	Big Two-Hearted River: The Centennial Edition by Ernest Hemingway, John N. Maclean (Foreword) 3.88 avg rating — 3,068 ratings — published 1925 — 58 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
	Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire 4.17 avg rating — 1,668 ratings — published 1999 — 31 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
	Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River 4.09 avg rating — 1,025 ratings — published 2021 — 7 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 Thirtymile Fire: A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal 4.14 avg rating — 420 ratings — published 2007 — 15 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 Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57 4.32 avg rating — 391 ratings — published 2013 — 11 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
	Fire and Ashes: On the Front Lines of American Wildfire 3.95 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2003 — 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
	Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 by Stephen J. Pyne, John N. Maclean (Foreword) 3.48 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2001 — 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
	River of Fire: The Rattlesnake Fire and the Mission Boys by John N. Maclean, Don Will (Foreword), Kari Greer (Photographer) 4.30 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2018 — 2 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
	Forty Years a Forester by Elers Koch, Char Miller (Editor), John N. Maclean (Foreword) 4.08 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1998 — 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

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“Memory can and should be more than a bridge to the past. It’s also a way to see yourself as a thread in a broad fabric long in the making.”
― John N. Maclean, Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River

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“But when you’ve worked for thirty years at the same job, for the same employer, you should ask yourself, why am I still here?”
― John N. Maclean, Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River

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