Rick Bass

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Rick Bass (born March 7, 1958^{[citation needed]}) is a critically-acclaimed American writer and an environmental activist.

Raised the son of a geologist in Texas, Bass studied petroleum geology at Utah State University. He started writing short stories on his lunch breaks while working as a petroleum geologist in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1987, he moved with his wife, the artist Elizabeth Hughes, to the remote Yaak Valley near Troy, Montana, where he worked to protect his adopted home from roads and logging. Rick has served on the board of the Yaak Valley Forest Council and Round River Conservation Studies.

He is the author of over twenty books, including nonfiction nature writing, essay collections, short story collections, novellas and novels. Among his works are The Deer Pasture, Oil Notes, Wild to the Heart, Winter: Notes from Montana, The Ninemile Wolves, The Lost Grizzlies, The Book of Yaak, Where the Sea Used to Be, Fiber,"The Hermit's Story", and Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and an O. Henry Award^[1]. He was a finalist for The Story Prize in 2007 for his short story collection The Lives of Rocks. He was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award (autobiography) for Why I Came West (2008).

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• Author papers at Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University
• Lopate Show with The Story Prize finalists: Rick Bass, Mary Gordon, and George Saunders (2/27/07)
• Danger Nonfiction in Narrative Magazine

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