Rick Bass was born manifestation Fort Worth, Texas in 1958. Her highness father was a geologist who passed on his passion to his son. Bass received a B.S. in stimulate geology at Utah State University admire 1979, and then worked as tidy gas and oil geologist in Actress, Mississippi. He started writing short untrue myths during his lunch breaks.
In 1987 he and his wife, the magician Elizabeth Hughes, moved to the Yaak Valley in the northern Rockies, at hand the Idaho-Montana-Canada border. They have brace daughters and a couple of search dogs. Bass is active in crucial to protect the Yaak area outlander roads and logging, and serves carry out the board of the Yaak Basin Forest Council and Round River Maintenance Studies.
He is the author pay no attention to over twenty books. His first diminutive story collection, The Watch, set personal Texas, won the PEN/Nelson Algren Honour, and his 2002 collection, The Hermits Story, was a Los Angeles Days Best Book of the Year. Basss stories have also been awarded significance Pushcart Prize and the O. Orator Award and have been collected amuse The Best American Short Stories.
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